Re: [Asrg] Re: The Solution To Spam - The First Response (Ken Hirsch)

["Ken Hirsch" <[e-mail]>]

From: "Philip Miller" <[e-mail]>
> > By rasing the 'bar' of initial expenditure verus return we could
> > eliminate a significant porportion of Internet fraud.  'GIEIS' will
> > employ this technique as well as others.
>
> But how do we accomplish this without eliminating all free enterprise on
> the Internet, where anyone with access can establish themselves as a
> meaningful entity, rather than turning the Internet into what exists now
> in broadcast television, where viewers are wholly passive entities with
> no direct influence on the medium?
> The bottom line is that requiring business registration creates a much
> higher hurdle for starting new online businesses, and this is
> unacceptable, seeing what the existing freedom on the Internet has given
> the world aside from spam.

I have only proposed registering SMTP servers.   The extra cost would be on
the order of $200 per year.  If you can't afford that, use somebody else's
SMTP server, as most people already do.  This is not a significant barrier
to entry.



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