From: Unprivileged user <nobody@www.video-collage.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 04:07:07 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: e$: $MTP? (fwd)
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On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Paul Bradley wrote:

> > > Frankly, I see no other solution to this problem in the long run except for
> > > postage, which means it's probably time to start figuring out, in earnest,
> > > how to make it all work. Whoever becomes the lowest cost producer of this
> > > kind of software stands to make a whole *bunch* of money.
> > 
> > We still need to work out how to fit mailing lists fit into this without
> > eliminating them entirely. Chargebacks to the subscribers?  If this list
> > will work in a proposed plan, I think all the others probably would as
> > well.. :-)
> 
> I personally see hashcash as the ideal way to solve this problem, and in 
> Adam Back`s analysis of the hashcash solution he mentions mailing lists 
> and suggest that filtering software have an explicit "filter in" command, 
> so you could eliminate any mail coming from the list from needing to have 
> cash attached. Of course the spammers could then just spam mailing lists, 
> but that it a much smaller problem than the current random UCE problem.

If all mail relays were either limited to sending to or from their
domains, and had a settable quota on Bcc: it would go a long way.  Since
mailers are high in Bcc, they could get a large quota.

I don't think spammers now send 500 discrete messages, especially long
ones, merely Bcc: 500 people.

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