On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:08:15 PDT, james woodyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > And as for those too poor to keep their CPU's current, Let Them Eat > SMTP. They clearly have an unhealthy interest in paying to receive > MAKE MONEY FAST spam, so we should encourage them to continue using > SMTP anyway. The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes > around it. Let SMTP continue to serve the useful function it serves: > carrying spam messages.
Ahem. I have several million dollars of compute resources at my disposal. It will take a fairly large hashcash request to make it painful for me. There's a *large* number of people still in the 386 world, who are financially unable to upgrade. That same hashcash request that will not inconvenience my hardware will probably kill their box for the better part of an hour. You are concluding that they therefor have an interest in paying to receive spam??? If anything, spam is a *bigger* problem for those on older hardware, simply because they have fewer computrons available to process it - so you're basically creating a regressive tax here. Just because the Internet routes around censorship doesn't mean that we have the moral right to censor those people who need it the most - those in underdeveloped countries with repressive regimes. Just because the Great Firewall of China exists doesn't mean we should add injury to insult by disenfranchising those who manage to get around the firewall. There is junk fax - and the Berlin Wall was brought down by fax machines. Let's not get this wrong.
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