Re: Thinking outside the box

On March 16, 2013 at 22:16 [email protected] (Marc Perkel) wrote:
 > OK - let's think outside the box. Let's pretend e,ail as we know is 
 > going away and we are going to create an entirely new system from 
 > scratch. Nothing has to be compatible. How would we do it right?

I'd build a system of e-postage stamps where people would get so many
for free, even 100,000/month would help the current problem tho
probably not that many.

You'd have to buy more at some modest price.

And get the ISPs et al to buy into checking their validity or at least
MUAs to check, probably something cryptographic or maybe servers
similar to the DNS servers, probably both.

The funding would be split between the ISPs and people who run the
stamp validity servers, whatever, TBD.

Similar in many ways to ICANN and the DNS system and domains in many
ways. You can't make up your own domains and use them in email, they'd
be rejected or flagged in email/envelopes, it's not much different.

Or you could choose to accept them, none of this stops you from
accepting email w/ fraudulent stamps other than if you choose to rely
on a service provider who blocks them. You could for example
set up different ports.

"Leakage" is not an issue any more than if I chose to put non-existant
domains on my web page, friends could even put them in their own DNS
and they'd work. Isn't going to bring down ICANN or invalidate the DNS
system.

I've suggested this for well over a decade and it seems to get stuck
on "*CHARGE* someone for EMAIL! NO WAY! I can think of ways around
that!!!" and not much else.

You can get around the sending, but not the receiving (short of
breaking the cryptography etc).

If we create an economy around email, and someone is losing money on
fraudulently sent email (defined by fraudulent stamps or attempts to
get around them) then there'd be more energy put into combatting spam.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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