Minnesota Senator Says Email Tax Might Reduce Spam

indros13 writes "The Hon. Mark Dayton, Senator from Minnesota, is reportedly considering a "miniscule email tax" to counter the flood of spam. Thinking like an economist, he's obviously hoping to make mass emailing unprofitable. 'You can't say, "We want it to be totally free and unrestricted and on the other hand we want it to work smoothly and civilly," he said.' No word on how all those lobbying groups that use mass emails will respond, but I'm sure there are a few emails on the way..." Politician weasel words are part of the package, though; Dayton says a tax is "just one of the tactics that should be considered, but I don't favor it at this time."

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Re:I'v already got bayesian filtering,

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"Use a decent filtering scheme."

Yeah , like they're 100% effective.

"certain guns wouldn't need to be outlawed because some dumbfuck would press the trigger by accident and off his entire family"

I was thinking just the same thing when landmines, bioweapons, nukes at the like were outlawed for private citizens too. Just cos
some dumbfuck might decimate a city shouldn't prevent my God Given Right (y'all) to be able to own one!