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> The problem comes from the giants using close source algorithms for mail filtering The root cause is that email is an open messaging network without moderati

> The problem comes from the giants using close source algorithms for mail filtering The root cause is that email is an open messaging network without moderation and sending cost. Other open network is SMS, but because of the sending cost the spam problem is much smaller, albeit still exists.

peppermint_tea 5y ago
good point
Teever 5y ago
I'm not much into the whole cryptocurrency hoopla but I've always thought that a digital currency would be the solution to email spam. $.25 fee to send an email and receiver gets the entire fee (or the bulk of it, after what pays for the network) Send more emails than you receive? Send a little bit of emails but get a few replies? It's break even.
- dllthomas 5y ago
  Not a new idea, and one I've been mildly enamored of at various points. At this point I'm somewhat ambivalent, but I think the standard responses are (depending on details of the plan): (X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (X) Users of email will not put up with it Specifically, your plan fails to account for (X) Laws expressly prohibiting it (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (X) Jurisdictional problems (X) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money (X) Extreme profitability of spam (X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes (X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves and the following philosophical objections may also apply: (X) Sending email should be free (X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt As mentioned, I don't know if I've really been convinced it can't work, though I'm also not convinced it would (or should, maybe?). Certainly it doesn't work at all unless transaction costs can be negligible.

peppermint_tea 5y ago

good point

Teever 5y ago

I'm not much into the whole cryptocurrency hoopla but I've always thought that a digital currency would be the solution to email spam. $.25 fee to send an email and receiver gets the entire fee (or the bulk of it, after what pays for the network) Send more emails than you receive? Send a little bit of emails but get a few replies? It's break even.

dllthomas 5y ago
Not a new idea, and one I've been mildly enamored of at various points. At this point I'm somewhat ambivalent, but I think the standard responses are (depending on details of the plan): (X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (X) Users of email will not put up with it Specifically, your plan fails to account for (X) Laws expressly prohibiting it (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (X) Jurisdictional problems (X) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money (X) Extreme profitability of spam (X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes (X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves and the following philosophical objections may also apply: (X) Sending email should be free (X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt As mentioned, I don't know if I've really been convinced it can't work, though I'm also not convinced it would (or should, maybe?). Certainly it doesn't work at all unless transaction costs can be negligible.