SPAM from Esther Dyson
Does the spam work? No
"My whimsical favorite is Esther Dyson's proposal to make any unwanted e-mailer pay for your attention. She fantasizes charging anywhere from a few cents for a small advertiser to $100 for an old boyfriend."
"Start-up company Bright Light Technologies will make its public debut
Monday, offering a service that will let corporations outsource their
anti-spam efforts.
Bright Light is a 9-month-old company backed by $5.5 million in venture
capital as well as private investors such as Internet consultant and author
Esther Dyson..." (7/17/98)
"There are also several companies now in the business of creating products to control
spamming. Dyson spoke of Bright Light... ("Oh, did I forget to mention I've invested in it? I'm such a big silly")
"Governance that ICANN exerts; this is limited to technical infrastructure; not people's behavior, privacy, spam, etc., except in
unusual cases" (Ie, OTHER people spamming. Leave mine alone, thanks)
"I'm mostly deleting spam..." - Esther Dyson (Does she spam herself?)
Esther Dyson has predicted the development of "smart" e-mail systems—programs which allow users to charge a fee for unsolicited e-mail"
"Security software vendor Symantec has taken an 11 percent stake in antispam filtering specialist Brightmail for $18 million, according to Brightmail's chief executive officer...
... Existing Brightmail investors include Sun Microsystems' co-founders Bill Joy and Andy Bechtolsheim as well as Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Interim Chairperson Esther Dyson. "
You can see the rest of the over 1200 hits on google where Esther talks about the evils of spam here
The "unsubscribe" "feature" in her spams did not prevent me from continueing to receive them. I currently blackhole all mail from edventure.com now.
29-Sep-02. Oops. Took out the edventure.com filter by accident. This showed up today. *PLONK*
Esther in the news:
