On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 03:23:04PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: | > However, I agree with you, merely prosecuting the people hijacking | > other people's resources will not be sufficient. It might be nice to | > see a few spammers go to jail, though, for stealing other people's | > computer resources. | | it would probably please me to see a few spammers have their hands | (or other body parts) cut off on worldwide television, but I don't | know that that would solve the problem. The problem is pretty clearly economic in that sending spam is close to free; it probably makes sense to look at economic solutions. As far back as 1995, Marshall Rose was charging (via First Virtual) to read email from you if you were not on a white list. Perhaps the IETF should consider standardizing such a charging mechanisms? Clearly there are issues that payment systems are not free, interfacing with them can be difficult, etc, but those are probably surmountable. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume