Use paypal (or some other micropayment system) to include a small token payment (say 5 to 25 cents) with each email message sent.
Real people who email each other will simply send the 25 cents back and forth.
Email readers can be set to discard any messages that contain less than x cents. Since mass spam mailings will not be able to include 25 cents with each message, they will be automatically discarded. Or, maybe advertisers will be willing to pay you to read their ad!
Anyway, this could all be automated, and work invisibly to the users, but would automatically weed out any non-paying spam.
I hereby donate this idea for the good of humanity:-)
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Use paypal (or some other micropayment system) to include a small token payment (say 5 to 25 cents) with each email message sent.
Real people who email each other will simply send the 25 cents back and forth.
Email readers can be set to discard any messages that contain less than x cents. Since mass spam mailings will not be able to include 25 cents with each message, they will be automatically discarded. Or, maybe advertisers will be willing to pay you to read their ad!
Anyway, this could all be automated, and work invisibly to the users, but would automatically weed out any non-paying spam.
I hereby donate this idea for the good of humanity