economics of spam (Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?)

[James A. Donald]

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On 15 May 2003 at 15:10, John R. Levine wrote:
> Sure, you could fix that problem by putting cryptographically 
> verifiable signatures on all mail, but we all know how likely
> that is. Of course, the fact that despite a decade of
> significant effort, nobody has the faintest idea how to
> implement a micropayment system makes the whole argument
> rather academic.

We know how to implement micropayments.

What we do not know is profitability, user interface models,
and how to avoid being sent to jail by the banking cartel. 

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