[cap-talk] can one use capabilities to stop spam without identity?

[Mark S. Miller]

Patroklos Argyroudis wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:42:26PM +0100, Matej Kosik wrote:
>> is (I believe) the only reasonable solution that might work. It is
>> possible to enforce such an security policy where you charge senders for
>> sending you a mail certain amount of money. You then review/read your
>> mails and money connected with non-spam-mail is returned back to the
>> senders. This of course does not prevent unsolicited mail (because you
>> do not want to prevent it) but you are compensated with appropriate
>> amount of money. How much you will charge for a mail (you might even
>> discriminate among people you already know) is up to you.
> 
> A similar system has already been proposed; see:
> 
> T. Loder, M.V. Alstyne and R. Wash.  An economic answer to unsolicited
> communication.  In ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, May 2004.
> (http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/loder04economic.html)


Earlier:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040603050152/http://www.bionomics.org/text/resource/articles/ar_014.html



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