On 11/01/07 00:16 +0530, Rony wrote: <snip>
the mobile pre-paid refills. As a statutory requirement, all email providers must recognize and accept mails that carry these Postal Estamps and deliver the messages directly to the inbox of the recipient.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Offline email clients like Thunderbird can carry an option to 'add estamp'. The estamp account holder simply clicks a button which uses a user_name and password to fetch a stamp and attach it to the mail. The
Attach a stamp? Sucks, because my systems will never see that email. In protocol rejection is far nicer.
mail will be sent only after the stamp is fetched so its headers will not contain any information of the estamp login/passwd. The cost of estamps will be definitely lower than normal postage and that may also encourage more senders to get net savvy. All stamps will be of the same value, say 5paise to 25paise per stamp. The high volume of genuine mail traffic will provide a huge revenue for the Postal Dept.
The spam guards can continue to filter mails like they did before except
You assume that good spam reducing solutions filter based on content. Spam is about consent, not content.
for *any* mails from *any* server that carries an estamp. This will also help recognize many small local mail servers that directly send mail and are otherwise rejected by other servers. We can setup our own mail servers that will be recognized by all.
How do you propose to prevent stamp forgery? Or deal with zombie systems?
Micropayments do not work.
(Assume that I inserted the appropriate checks in the FUSSP evauluation form here).
Devdas Bhagat