> > You have to ration the stamps somehow, otherwise they're meaningless.
>
> Not necessarily. The issue is accountability. It's easy for fly-by-night
> operations to spam and flee because no one knows who they are. If you
> somehow tie it into a more legitimate system, you now have a way to track
> them down and make them face the consequences for their actions.
But tying it to a legitimate system rations the stamps, since the only way
to get them is through the legitmate system, who would presumably turn
down a request for 10,000,000 stamps from hack3rd0od@yahoo.com.
> I'm not sure any of this is workable, though.
We agree there.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.
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