Anti-Spam Economic Measures
The cluster discusses proposals to combat spam by imposing costs like per-message fees, micro-payments, or proof-of-work on senders, making large-scale spamming unprofitable especially for email and online posts.
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Spammers are worse at something no one tried to use AFAIK: require a fee to deliver email.
Payment. Every emailed sent needs a payment token. Maybe like a few cents similar to postage. If your reputations got screwed because doing spamish activities, rates go up cost say 1 dollar per email. Each sender must have verified account just like FB that maps to your national IDs. Over night spam will plunge. Of course getting this implemented across the world would be impossible. We could wage war with any countries that refuse to participate...just like any countires wishing to undermine US
Because spammers can't afford a couple of TB of disk space?
It's more costly so it probably changes the economics of spam.
It actually adds some cost to the spammer, so that could be good.
“spam wouldn’t scale” - unconvinced on this: spammers already mostly use other people’s compromised machines to do the sending; there is no cost to them here.
Wasn't that one of the suggestions for removing spam, by having every email sent cost something (proof of work, receipt of payment, etc?)
It's a good strategy. Suddenly spam costs money.
why don't they fine them for delivering spam? like $1 per instance or something motivating?
They get paid to serve that spam. Why would they reduce the avenues to serve the spam?