[BC] If you wonder why email is getting worse

[Al Stewart]

So what do you consider to be "unsolicited email"?

Al

------ At 05:44 PM 12/06/2006 -0500, Stu Engelke wrote: -------
  

>I think that email needs to be re-built from the ground up and I hope it will be the open source community that does it. I've often thought that unsolicited email should have a "cost" for the sender. Not necessarily money.
>Perhaps CPU time in a challenge response thing that would slooooow down bulk mailings to unsolicited addresses. Calculate PI to 2 billion and 3 places or something.
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>Or perhaps solve a problem only a human can do. Like what is in the picture of squggly letters and "cost" them people time to get the message thru.
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>Stu
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>Barry Mishkind wrote:
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>>Of course, is MUST come to a point where the sheer volume of spam leads the airheads who "run" the Internet to finally agree that most anonymous email must stop.  If someone comes up with a better solution, they will be very rich!
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