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IBM Researcher Offers an E-Stamp Spam Solution

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that-would-do-it dept.

UnanimousCoward writes "This Internet Week article describes a research project by Scott Fahlman that looks to limit spam using e-stamps. Here is more detailed description of the system under his CMU homepage along with a link to the original paper." As crappy as it sounds, charging some tiny fee per email would cut spam dramatically. 207 of the buggers so far today. Hundreds of megs a month. I'd love to see something done.

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  1. Sorry, actually I tried to post to the article bel by babyblink · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    sorry really!

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