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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: SPAM-less email (was If anybody wants to make something in Adabut
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AG <ang@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
: If you post from a regular ISP account - the ISP
: sure knows how to charge you - they send you
: a bill every month or so.

If only some of them hadn't started to give away free
(and unchecked) accounts.

: Now, if my ISP offers (as an option which
: anyone may or may not subscribe to) a mailbox
: which *only* accepts mails from such destinations
: and silently discards everything else - I would be
: willing to get one like that. Wouldn't you?

I'd rather be able to decide myself which eMail I want to read.
So I'd prefer a solution that isn't silently throwing mail away.

The problem of determining which email has been legitimately
sent and which is fraud remains, because of fraudulent providers.
I think it is much more a problem of establishing the moral
rules, and their effects, that will hinder spammers. Is it true
that unsolicited faxes are less frequent than unsolicited emails?
If so, why? ;-)

-- Georg