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Would you Warranty Your Email?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday February 6, 2004 @04:50AM from the depends-on-what-that-needs dept.

Kurt writes "A team from the University of Michigan is proposing an economic solution to spam. Instead of relying on technical solutions or government regulations, they use a sender warranty system. In some cases, they argue, it can even be superior to a perfect filter with zero cost, and no errors. Their working paper is available at SSRN. With the caveat that some infrastructure is necessary (isn't it always?), they also claim their approach restores control to the recipient, halts spam, and creates a marketplace for valuable information exchange."

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Better links by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-06 05:17 · Score: 5, Informative
The /. summary only links to the umich homepage. But, here are some better ones, pulled from the article. [Posted anonymously to prevent accusations of karma-whoring.]
- Center for Information Technology Integration. These guys are cool. Besides thinking up schemes like this, they also work on things like NFSv4.
- EECS Dept.
- School of Information
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More info, in a less technical format by Thede · 2004-02-06 05:20 · Score: 5, Informative

Hi, I'm one of the authors of the paper mentioned in this post. We have a short summary of reasoning behind the design posted here It is a little less dense than the SSRN paper. Also, I'll get a protocol diagram up shortly, and a short FAQ, linked from the one pager.
Thede Loder
University of Michigan.