[80587] in Cypherpunks
Re: spam is a good thing (was Re: Spam IS Free Speech)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Fri May 23 02:22:06 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970522114016.009438c0@labg30>
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 23:14:09 -0400
To: John Deters <jad@dsddhc.com>,
"Willaim H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>,
Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 12:40 pm -0400 on 5/22/97, John Deters wrote:
> Adam's "Tragedy of the Unmetered Commons" certainly provides a solution.
> Metering and charging e$ for mail-routing services would allow it to occur
> while stopping the freeloaders.
The tragedy of the commons, of course, is that nobody owns it. :-).
Eric Hughes and his penny-roll experiments to the contrary...
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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