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

[Erick Andrews]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:30:36 -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.

I'm not convinced it's the best solution.  If it's the "right" solution I
only see it as a temporary 'band-aid'.  Plus I'm not convinced that the 
longer term use of payment-at-risk cannot be circumvented.

It just seems to me that the best solutions operate closer to the source
of the problem.

I suggest that decrease of Internet bandwidth from payment-at-risk
would reach some low point, at some near time out, then likely increase 
again as cheap new servers are put into service.  Besides, I haven't seen
any proposed payment/penalty schedules yet.

-- 
Erick Andrews