Payments as an answer to spam

Ian Grigg iang at systemics.com
Wed May 14 12:24:29 EDT 2003


Joseph Ashwood wrote:

> Let's pretend for a moment that all the mail systems throughout all the
> world require this. The spammers will now send out duplicate checks in their
> batches; why? simple because most of the messages will reach the inbox
> before the check is cashed (a smart spammer will use duplicate checks and
> then cash the check once the bulk is in inboxes, just on the chance of
> getting their money back),

I think the notion is that if the payment isn't
a good payment, the mail gets junked unread.
Ones Mail agent is supposed to do this for you.

-- 
iang

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