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Comment by calvinmorrison

7 months ago

Or just charge bots and humans and we're good to go

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/postage-is-due...

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TJSomething  7 months ago

While that works for attacks that are like spam, bot detection for high margin attacks like show ticket scalping really wants an identity-oriented solution.

servercobra  7 months ago

Ah yes, postage has stopped all the spam coming to my house!

  • throw10920  7 months ago

    This is an extremely ignorant take. It's extremely well-known that one of the primary ways you stop spam is by making it economically infeasible, specifically by making the cost of distribution higher than the expected return. It's also extremely well-known that spam snail-mail is subsidized by the US post office and doesn't pay normal post rates.