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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. Postal Service by ElDuderino44137 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The only way to "truely" stop spam is for organizations like the "US Postal Service" to get up-to-date with technology and run a set of secure servers across the country to deal with nothing but eMail. These servers would talk to thier own eMail clients and not have anything to do with any other server outside of their trusted set of servers. End of story. Any other solution will be "forged" or "compromised".

  2. just change your email address by bigpat · · Score: 0, Troll

    hey just change your email address every two years. I was getting so much junk email that I decided to change addresses. Just gave out the new email address to friends and haven't gotten on anyone's list yet.

    Very simple solution.

    Just to warn you, I'm applying for a patent, so if you change your email address to avoid spam you owe me $5.