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

[Hans Reiser]

Roy Bixler wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:30:36AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.  
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Well, these are real concerns, but the idea that you have to pay to send 
email is a good one.

>Is there an RFC on this idea anywhere?
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>>I don't think that payment at risk is Gates's original idea though....
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>It wouldn't surprise me to see Microsoft has "patent pending" on this
>one too.
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>R.
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I think we should object when he does.