spam control again

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:33:34PM -0400, Seth Gordon wrote:
> D. J. Bernstein has proposed a new email protocol
> (http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html) in which every email message is stored on
> the *sender's* machine (or the sender's ISP's machine) until the
> receiver confirms that it has downloaded the message.
> 
> I don't know anything else about this protocol -- maybe Bernstein and
> the other folks on the IM2000 are still arguing over details -- but it
> seems to me that setting up some kind of new email system along these
> lines would make it significantly easier to control spam.

Yes, but we're likely to continue arguing over it until someone builds a
trial implementation...

-dsr-

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