On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:55:47AM +1100, Mary Gardiner 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. > > Interesting thing to advocate on a high volume mailing list of (almost > entirely) legitmate mail. Of course the figures you propose would > probably be affordable by SLUG and similar organisations, but not by all > providers of community mailing lists.
That's why I said by default. I think exemptions would be made almost as a matter of course; certainly for solicited mail such as mailing list mail. btw, Dave Farber the interesting-people mailing list guy had this objection too. He's got 10,000 recipients so it's a serious problem for him. I've left alone the issue of who decides and who imposes the cost. Perhaps these are too intractable and we're stuck with spam forever. > Of course, with major email providers beginning to shift to blocking > *all* list mail by default unless specifically whitelisted, the burden Is this happening now? > of running or belonging to a mailing list may soon be too high to > justify. Pity. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
