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

[Hans Reiser]

Joe Moore 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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>>I don't think that payment at risk is Gates's original idea though....
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>Except that payment at risk requires charging the spammer.
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>In order to charge the spammer, you have to find the spammer.
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No, in order for any mail at all to get through you have to pay.  The 
spammers have to find us and pay us before we read any email from them.  
Read it more carefully.