[13134] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ryan)
Wed Oct 29 15:53:43 1997
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 20:29:52 GMT
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
From: Matt Ryan <matt@planet.net.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: matt@planet.net.uk
In-Reply-To: <199710281805.AA06477@world.std.com>
>
> This sounds nice and principled but who is going to pay the bill for
> the spam? It's non-trivial.
>
The spammers pay by hooking up with an ISP. How do your customers pay the
recipients of their messages for them downloading them? Have you not noticed
that email delivery is a cooperative process?
Matt.
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