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Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful

  • From: Matt Ryan
  • Date: Wed Oct 29 16:00:12 1997 
> 
> 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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