[Am-info] Gates forecasts victory over spam (Gates is right)

[Roy Bixler]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:30:36AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote:
> I think payment at risk is very much the right solution, and the only 
> one that can work.  All the rest is an arms race that the spammers will 
> win because they care more.  My only concern is that we are taking too 
> long to go to payment at risk, and we are going to be suffering the 
> whole time until it happens.

But what do you think the chances are that Gates will take the
opportunity to build a proprietary extension into Exchange servers and
Outlook clients to implement his solution and lock everyone else out?
Of course, he might decide to be "more generous" with "his idea" if
Microsoft could be the clearinghouse for and collect a vig on all such
payments.  Is there an RFC on this idea anywhere?

> I don't think that payment at risk is Gates's original idea though....

It wouldn't surprise me to see Microsoft has "patent pending" on this
one too.

R.

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