From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 11:46:45 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Hardening lists against spam attacks
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19961231114736.006bd3a0@netcom13.netcom.com>
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At 10:25 AM 12/31/96 -0800, Peter Hendrickson wrote:
>The easiest and fastest solution is to set up toad.com to charge a
>dollar per message.  (Proceeds to be spent by John Gilmore as he
>sees fit.)
>
>We can then leverage off the existing e-cash infrastructure which
>already provides blinding software for free on all major platforms.

I am not sure that this proposal would work. Some of the spammers on this
list are rather dedicated. They might gladly pay a dollar per message.



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