On Sun, 19 May 2002, Amy Stinson wrote:
> Back in the days before the internet became so accessible to us common
> folk, companies like Prodigy and Compuserve gave people an email
> allowance. Any email after that was charged to the account. Is that
> totally impractical with today's technology?
Ignoring the problem of using open relays, this goes bake to the
siteblocking argument. How do you compel all providers to follow that
policy. Many customers (legitimate and spammers alike) will switch to a
provider that doesn't do that kind of charging. If a provider doesn't
prevent spam from their network, do we block all mail (including the
legitimate mail) from their network.
All of the proposes that I've seen popping up here involve saying that
service providers to end users should do certain sorts of things to
prevent spam from their network (or make the individual spammer bear the
cost) But the only enforcement mechanism we have for that is to exclude
non-complient networks from the Internet.
Personally, how a particular ISP prevents spam from their network is their
business. But only way to pressure some ISPs into doing the right thing
is siteblocking.
-j
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Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
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