Eric Allman, the developer of Sendmail says that the volume of unsolicited email would undoubtedly be a tiny fraction of today’s figure if some real cost had been placed on the sender. But, he notes the original network had been designed for a limited community of users and that the need to allow for “bad actors” became obvious only when access to the network was opened to the general public. See his story at thenetwork.cisco.com.
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