[Gllug] Paying to send email..

[Dan Stevens (IAmAI)]

Of couse there will be no way of forcing people to pay to send emails
to them, which proves the flaw in the system. I wish they wouldn't
claim that is supposed to tackle spam because it wont' tackle spam
anymore than spam filters should. All this is doing is giving whoever
is willing to pay, the opportunity to by pass spam filter. I would
imagine bypassing spam filter is a very appealing prospect to
spammers, who ironically, may be willing to spend money to do.

In essence, I see no logical explaination of how this is going to
tackle spam, and if anything it is opening the opportunity for it to
get worse.

On 06/02/06, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:24:35PM +0000, Dan Stevens (IAmAI) wrote:
> > I can't see how this will be of any use unless everyone is charged to
> > send emails. If that happens, I won't be sending emails to AOL or
> > Yahoo addresses (in fact, I don't think I do anyway).
>
> Trouble is that you can't control who your mates sign up with, or
> those on mail lists that you may manage.
>
> I run several lists - if this really bites I shall simply ask those
> to get another email address. I am a mean bastard & won't pay.
>
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