Re: anti-spam WKBIs, was why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

["John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

> You say this like having a tax on running a botted computer on the internet would be a bad thing.
>
> I agree that it would provide a bit of profit to the spammers for a very short period of time, but I bet it would get
> a lot of bots fixed pretty quick.

What would actually happen is that the users would refuse to pay their
ISPs for their bot mail, the ISPs would refuse to pay the recipients,
and the whole thing would collapse.  Like I said in my decade old
white paper, the problems when real money are involved will be worse
than the ones they purport to solve.

On the other hand, if you plan to go ahead with this WKBI, I'll let
Phil Raymond know.  He'd love to do something with that patent.

R's,
John