[170439] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WKBIs, was why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Thu Mar 27 11:30:57 2014
Date: 27 Mar 2014 15:30:09 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <C8AEB0DD-2B9E-4801-A222-16CD1665B9E6@delong.com>
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>Actually, a variant on that that might be acceptable… Make e-postage a deposit-based thing. If the recipient has
>previously white-listed you or marks your particular message as “desired”, then you get your postage back. If not,
>then your postage is put into the recipients e-postage account to offset the cost of their emails.
>
>Thoughts?
You could have bought the patent on this WKBI on eBay last year:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/251279133681
When I was running the ASRG, I set up a wiki where we could keep a
taxonomy of anti-spam techniques, so we could save time and just point
people at it when they reinvent them. It's still there, contributions
of anything we've missed are still welcome:
http://wiki.asrg.sp.am/wiki/Attention_bonds
R's,
John
PS: Well Known Bad Idea
