on Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:55:47AM +1100, Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As unfortunate as it is, I think the only way to combat spam is to > > make it expensive to send by default. > ... > > Of course, with major email providers beginning to shift to blocking > *all* list mail by default unless specifically whitelisted, the burden > of running or belonging to a mailing list may soon be too high to > justify. Pity.
Well, I just happen to be looking at the spam problem myself! Although the economic method would work do you not think that the problem is really the "simple" in SMTP? I believe there is work going on to write a new mail protocol for then Internet and that this will go a long way to solving the SPAM problem. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
