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Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Wed Mar 26 13:12:47 2014

Date: 26 Mar 2014 16:59:52 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5332DF1A.9040001@pari.edu>
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>That way?  Make e-mail cost; have e-postage.

Gee, I wondered how long it would take for this famous bad idea to
reappear.

I wrote a white paper ten years ago explaining why e-postage is a
bad idea, and there is no way to make it work.  Nothing of any
importance has changed since then.

http://www.taugh.com/epostage.pdf

R's,
John

PS: Yes, I've heard of Bitcoins.


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