Will certified e-mail stop spam? (was: unsubscribing... etc)

[Jamon Camisso]

Jason Spiro wrote:
> On 4/11/06, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> This all actually comes back to the problem I once mentioned: smtp is a mess,
>> a hugest mess on the internet bettween all other communication protocols.
> 
> SMTP has problems that make spammers' jobs easier.
> 
> But at least some ISPs are experimenting with new anti-spam
> techniques, such as allowing email senders to pay a tiny fee to bypass
> spam filters. Perhaps once enough large e-mail providers adopt this
> technique, the spam problem will be reduced.
> 
> Of course, as Wikipedia[1] points out, when malware authors send email
> from the PCs they infect, they will probably find a way to charge
> those fees to the PCs' owners. Hopefully that will only encourage
> people to be more careful about PC security instead of being a fatal
> blow to the popularity of cost-based systems.

Haven't read the wikipedia article (been following on other places), but 
I wonder if you meant to say "instead of being a fatal blow?" I should 
think that in this case, unsuspecting users would be an *asset* in 
striking the fatal blow at a pay-per-message scheme.

Jamon


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