Anti spam solutions

[Charly Baker]

On Thursday 09 October 2003 3:06 pm, William Park wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:37:50PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 07:13:32AM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> > > That could work. Especially if there would be a charge per recipient,
> > > as is with paper mail.
> >
> > And how would you implement this?  What if I connect to your mailserver
> > with my little program and try to send you a message?  How do you expect
> > to charge me for sending it?  Who charges this fee?  An ISP?  The
> > recipient?  Who gets the money?
>
> You pay your ISP, just like you're doing now.  Your ISP pays their ISP
> (ie. Bell).  Even if you connect directly to recipient's machine, you
> still have to go through your ISP, through telecom backbone, and then
> through recipient's ISP.  They'll love it.  They'll charge you money,
> and blame the "government" for making them do it.

And the spammers will carry on exactly as they now do, totally unaffected by 
this nonsense.

Charly Baker
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