From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 17:12:05 MDT
--- Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:44:36PM -0700, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> >
> > --- Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal@smigrodzki.org> wrote:
> > > Benoit wrote:
> > > ### What if you have to hit "delete" 200 times a day?
> > >
> > > There are people who do.
> >
> > I just had to abandon my old datamann.com address because spam
> > constitutes about 75 messages a day to that inbox.
>
> So little? :-) One of the drawbacks of having an old website with my
> email address on nearly every page is that I'm in all spam databases.
>
> I will likely move digitally shortly, so don't get surprised by a new
>
> .net.persona (but I still don't know how to transfer the parts of my
> mind that live in akira.nada.kth.se - that is even harder than moving
> email).
You can edit up to 50 files at a time with Edit+ (see
http://www.editplus.com) and do global search and replace of your old
email address with the new one. I use this to mass update websites as
well as correct corrupted address files.
> The pay for email is IMHO an elegant solution (since it is not based
> on fallible email filters, ineffectual and coercive spam laws or
> internet disrupting black holing but by a voluntary change of the
> economics of the situation), but I doubt it can easily be
> implemented unless we get good micropayment aggregation systems (I
> read some papers about them, and the cryptographics is wonderful
> and ingenious, but the economy and sociology is far harder to
> solve).
The only real problem is getting paymail implemented as a W3C standard.
I think that the 20M+ people already signed up for the do-no-call
database should be enough of a wakeup to the software companies that
the market wants this technology. Even if we can get a web standard
adopted, each company will try to implement it their own way, which
will screw things up for a good while.
I wish we could get some rich extrope to fund a non-profit effort to
get this implemented across the market. I would call it The C-Mail
Project (C as in cents).
I even have an idea to incentivize it for the mail application people:
people the download c-mail enabled software can pay the software maker
with the c-money they receive to register the software. Since most
email software is a loss leader, this would finally profitize a
non-profit product.
=====
Mike Lorrey
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