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28 Jun 2003, 12:45am

Microsoft Preps Pay-For Spam Scheme

Microsoft once again is trying to keep Spammers at bay by announcing their plans to implement a scheme that would charge spammers for sending junk mail.

The pay-per-spam scheme is definitely the more radical approach. Microsoft Research (MSR) has been dabbling for years with the concept of making spammers pay: in cash, in compute cycles and/or in memory cycles. Microsoft Research's idea for this is called "Penny Black."
For the full story:
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/artic...129TX1K0000535
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30 Jun 2003, 4:47am
Perhaps Microsoft will truly do us a service with this one. My poor AOL account is still getting about 110 spams per week... not as bad as it used to be, but I'm sure paying a fee would put a cramp in the style of all those (seemingly) millions of people trying to sell me pills and equipment to improve my libido...


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30 Jun 2003, 4:50am
I wonder what they'll make the spammers pay for each e-mail they send? I would suggest $1 per spam e-mail.
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30 Jun 2003, 5:32am
how clever ...another chance for ms to make money at our expense.
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30 Jun 2003, 12:27pm
They aren't going to make us pay, they are going to make the poeple who send us the spam pay.
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30 Jun 2003, 12:55pm
danball1976 said
They aren't going to make us pay, they are going to make the poeple who send us the spam pay.
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csimon said
how clever ...another chance for ms to make money at our expense.
The money goes to Microsoft. So where in that do they NOT make money?
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30 Jun 2003, 1:09pm
Well they were also discussing having them pay in the hardware sense, which wouldn't line MS's pockets. Basically, as long as they can tell I'm not a spammer when I send a mass mail to all my friends, I don't care if MS makes some extra cash in this equation. Finding a way to effectively and desciminantly hinder spam would be a tremendous boon to the internet, IMHO.
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30 Jun 2003, 4:27pm
The amount of bandwidth used by spammers must be costing ISP's an insane amount of money. If this even halves my 100ish spams per day, I'm all for it.
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30 Jun 2003, 4:34pm
csimon said
how clever ...another chance for ms to make money at our expense.
Its nor our expense. This scheme will benefit Microsoft by giving them yet another source of income; and us by having less spam. Its worth it seeing how we arn't actually doing anything for this.
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1 Jul 2003, 3:42am
Well I don't care who benefits as long as SPAMMERS get canned (to coin a phrase). I have had my Zoom email account for as long as I can remember, probably getting on for 7 or 8 years, and I get about 80 spam emails a day. So the more big players like Microsoft do to try and stop SPAM the better.
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