One Answer To Spam: Sell Your Interruption Time

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 10, 2002 @02:38AM from the here-are-my-rates dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A recent article in the IBM Systems Journal describes an innovative solution to curb both spam email and telemarketing. In short, the potential recipient of a message/call advertises the potential cost of contacting him uninvited. If the sender agrees to pay that cost, it acquires a token that it includes in the message/call and the message/call is accepted. The recipient decides to collect the fee or not, while recipients in a white list are not required to carry a token. The author also provides for a more detailed description."

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Copyright Notice at End of Article by SailorBob · 2002-12-10 03:20 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Cited references and note
1. SPAM is a registered trademark of Hormel Food Corporation,
referring to a family of ham-like products. The use of the
word "spam" to refer to unwanted e-mail is of obscure origin,
but may have something to do with a comedy sketch by the
Monty Python group depicting a restaurant in which every dish
contains spam.

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