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I guess the problem is you need to pay a significant amount of money to file a claim. Interestingly, some have advocated the same method for preventing spam in
by nu23 15y ago
I guess the problem is you need to pay a significant amount of money to file a claim. Interestingly, some have advocated the same method for preventing spam in email by requiring you to pay a very small amount every time you send one.
- brazzy 15y agoYes, that's one of the oldest and most useless proposals that gets brought up by at least 5 people in every single discussion of email spam...
- onemoreact 15y agoWhich just happened to work well for the closest thing email has to a replacement. Text Messages. Think about this for a second, just about anyone can send you a text at any time using your public phone number yet it's not a problem.
- brazzy 15y agoNot a problem? Google for "text message spam". Now think a second about the useful things emails are used for which text messages generally can't be: notifications for new releases of OSS projects or replies to a blog comment, mailing lists for OSS developers or hobbies...