Fwd: E-MAIL SURCHARGE

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:18:16PM -0400, phil wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2005, at 5:08 PM, William Park wrote:
> 
> >However, charging for outgoing email (not incoming) will solve spam
> >problem, once and for all.
> 
> In the past year, I believe most of my spam has arrived from the 
> "zombie" network of compromised Windows systems.  Which means, that it 
> wouldn't be the actual spammers paying an outgoing surcharge.
> 
> (But, on the other hand, having to pay money because of what their 
> infected system spewed might get people to move to a more secure OS.  
> All right!  Bring it on!)

And the traffic on this list would reduce to near nothing.

Or we will invent an alternate system to email that isn't charged for
messages.  Maybe the new system will be more spam proof.  Perhaps we
will require use of gpg authentication on all messages. :)

Lennart Sorensen
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