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I would add postage to the protocol, as well. Spam consumes so much resources because it's basically free -- adding required computational complexity to send a
by jfb 14y ago
I would add postage to the protocol, as well. Spam consumes so much resources because it's basically free -- adding required computational complexity to send a mail (or, even better, an escrow based real money postage system) would go a long way towards cutting the legs out from under the spammers.
Network effects mean that all this is idle speculation, however.
- laumars 14y agoI don't think it would make that much difference to spam as most of it is sent from hijacked machines anyway and the legitimate stuff is heavily regulated so must have features like "unsubscribe". There definitely does need to be a better way of managing it though. But I'm yet to find a better way to manage spam (every method I do consider would either be ineffective or open to abuse to blacklist legitimate senders). But I guess that's the $million question.