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Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Evans)
Sat Nov 1 05:43:23 1997

Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 19:14:45 +0900
From: Peter Evans <peter@gol.ad.jp>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0xRSOe-00076uC@most.weird.com> [%y%02m.%02N]


	I couldn't resist this:

On %m %N, "Greg A. Woods" <woods@most.weird.com> wrote: 

	[snip - about charging $500 spam-penalty.]

|Mabye you have to be like the phone company and charge a $500 deposit on
|all new accounts until some history has been established that indicates
|you're at least trustworthy on the surface.

	They do. Their name is NTT, Its about 670$ (72000yen) per
	line and your chances of getting it back are nil[1].

	this gets you 1 analogue line right. (for a bit more, you
	can have an ISDN line which is what I have now ..)

	Peter
	----*

[1] actually, you can sell your line right, but you wont get the
    full 72000yen back.

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