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[Roland Perry]

In message <20021009165700.A7118@snowy.squish.net>, Jon Ribbens
<jon+ukcrypto@unequivocal.co.uk> writes
>The problem is that it is cheaper to send than to receive. It seems to
>me that this can be solved either socially (through legislation)

I don't really regard that as the social solution. It's easier to throw
your litter in the street than place in it a bin. Social pressures,
rather than law, are the way to combat that problem too.

>or
>technologically (by replacing SMTP with something else).

This isn't a practical solution. But to keep the crypto angle, people
have suggested that an SMTP-replacement might only deal in signed mail,
and so the perpetrators were much more easily traced.

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