Re: Feedback on Hypertext Mail Protocol (a.k.a. Stub Email)

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:30:31AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> No, the prime benefit is that mail is stored by the sender.  
> That means the spammer bears the cost of hosting the mail, so spam becomes
> less economically attractive.

Spammers will find a way around this. For example, they could install
an arbitrary number of IM2000 message stores on zombie Windows
machines, and point junk domain names at them. Or, they could set up an
IM2000 server that stores a single copy of their message for all 50
million recipients. IM2000 shifts the burden of message storage to the
sender, but the sender can quite easily delegate this further to other
unsuspecting victims.

Greg Hewgill
http://hewgill.com