Re: e-postage stamps, was Welcome to the new(ish) ASRG list

On Mar 18, 10:33pm, John Levine wrote:
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} This also has the adverse selection problem, it encourages phishing,
} fake drugs, and other high value spammers who figure that it's just
} a cost of doing business.  Or they set up the First Very Authentic
} E-Postage Bank of Nigeria, and debase the currency.

This is one reason the POSTAGE draft required that the receiver advertise
the banks it would accept, and the sender had to pick one of those.

http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-asrg-postage-00.txt