KevMar's Journal: One Man's Quest

How much crap in my inbox do I have to put up with? Paris Hilton, Fw;Re;Fw, reduce debt, porn, and enlargement crap. Any change to the email system will have to be universial.

Micropayments sound like a good idea, but I don't pay for email now and I don't like the idea of paying for somwthing that should be fundementaly free. And what about the posibility of mistakes or large mailing lists? what about a victom of a email worm? One way to shoot down a micropayment movement would be to unleash a worm that just kept sending messages and make charges add up.

Processing micropayments are another slight change in the idea. create a small puzzle and make the sender solve it. a spammer that sends a high volume of messages could collect and gather solutions over time or have enought partial solutions to give the puzzles no processing value, It then becomes a database lookup.

No mater what the solution is, we will have to make universial changes for it to work. As we transition into the new system, we will either remain backwards compatible or segment the market.

And if this is the case, should we look at starting from scratch?