Re: [Asrg] (no subject)

>One set of exchanges occurs went I communicate with a relatively small 
>group of individuals with whom I have some sort of trust relationship: ...

Yup.  Since spammers will try to sneak in there, you need some sort of
hard to break authentication to identify their mail.  Maybe something
like domain keys will do the trick.  S/MIME sure hasn't.  Any
suggestions?

>However, there is a second set of email exchages that I need to consider. 
>On occasion, I receive emails from "random" individuals with whom I don't 
>have any kind of pre-existing trust relationship.
>While these exchanges are relatively infrequent, they often contain 
>important information.

Agreed.  How much do you expect people to be willing to pay you in
order or how many hoops will they be willing to jump through in order
to send you important information?

>Personally, I think that the Micro-Payment systems offer the best
>approach.  This is technology that is going to be adopted / deployed
>anyway and I'd just as soon piggyback off it.

I eagerly await your discussion of how you expect people to build a
micropayment system that will handle a useful amount of mail (a good
beta size would be five billion messages a day), run at a cost that
people would be willing to pay (closer to a penny a message than to a
dollar a message), and won't be subverted by spammers using fake
postage, used postage, hijacked machines, and a dozen other scams we
haven't thought of yet.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
http://www.taugh.com

PS: This discussion reminds me of people saying that current
automobiles are unsatisfactory because the fuel is dirty and
expensive, therefore future cars will run on water.  Water is
plentiful and ecologically benign.  I don't have any idea how a
water-powered car would work and neither does anyone else, but I think
that cars will run on water anyway.

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