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It would be possible to solve the spam problem once and for all with a crypto currency: if (Sender is whitelisted by receiver): All emails arrive in t

by TekMol 4y ago

It would be possible to solve the spam problem once and for all with a crypto currency: if (Sender is whitelisted by receiver): All emails arrive in the inbox else: Sender has to send $1 for their email to arrive in the inbox The $1 will be returned if the receiver replies

akmittal 4y ago
I will stop replying to my mail for sure
- dinosaurdynasty 4y ago
  I think ideally replies would have a token to bypass it (since replies are expected)
eli 4y ago
This was a bad idea when it was first proposed 30 years ago
neilk 4y ago
e-postage, knows-SMTP-4, knows-SMTP-5 -> https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html We have cryptographic identity in SMTP already. In fact, almost all our protocols and formats for signing and identity were first adapted from email standards. This has already failed. "You might be an anti-spam kook" does need to be updated to also include cryptocurrency solutions. You're neglecting the transaction costs associated with cryptocurrency, which might be punitive both for senders and for those attempting to collect the spam bounty. Of course the big email providers could aggregate settlements... but now we're back to having big email providers.
- fortran77 4y ago
  > "You might be an anti-spam kook" does need to be updated to also include cryptocurrency solutions I was scanning this thread to see if someone would post that old copypasta email solution checklist form again. Here's one version: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
  - neilk 4y ago
    I can’t believe it, there is already a checkbox for “weird new form of money”. I feel a little bit bad for dismissing the solution… but not very bad. If low-cost microtransactions were viable, we could do many interesting things. For some reason cryptocurrency is often conflated with microtransactions. Yeah yeah Lightning Network blah blah, but I haven’t heard of anything that could scale to 300 billion emails per day.

by TekMol 4y ago

akmittal 4y ago

I will stop replying to my mail for sure

dinosaurdynasty 4y ago
I think ideally replies would have a token to bypass it (since replies are expected)

eli 4y ago

This was a bad idea when it was first proposed 30 years ago

neilk 4y ago

e-postage, knows-SMTP-4, knows-SMTP-5 -> https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html We have cryptographic identity in SMTP already. In fact, almost all our protocols and formats for signing and identity were first adapted from email standards. This has already failed. "You might be an anti-spam kook" does need to be updated to also include cryptocurrency solutions. You're neglecting the transaction costs associated with cryptocurrency, which might be punitive both for senders and for those attempting to collect the spam bounty. Of course the big email providers could aggregate settlements... but now we're back to having big email providers.

fortran77 4y ago
> "You might be an anti-spam kook" does need to be updated to also include cryptocurrency solutions I was scanning this thread to see if someone would post that old copypasta email solution checklist form again. Here's one version: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
- neilk 4y ago
  I can’t believe it, there is already a checkbox for “weird new form of money”. I feel a little bit bad for dismissing the solution… but not very bad. If low-cost microtransactions were viable, we could do many interesting things. For some reason cryptocurrency is often conflated with microtransactions. Yeah yeah Lightning Network blah blah, but I haven’t heard of anything that could scale to 300 billion emails per day.