In order to keep the spam out of my in box I would be willing to have to pay for each email I send and also have the spammers do the same; say 4 or 5 cents each to: address. It seems to me that spam would no longer be as profitable and would be greatly reduced by stopping those that are getting one hit per million. The problem is who should get the money? Not the ISPs, definitely not governments. Maybe set up some sort of corporation that would fund the set up of mail relays that check for some sort of prepaid encrypted "reciept" attached to every email and just drop any without it, Have the corporation go after the few spammers left that were willing to pay by refusing to sell them any more email. Then maybe the corporation could use the money to give grants for open source project development or maybe inovation awards kind of like a techie nobel prize. Whatever we can come up with that would contribute to the common good within the computing / networking world.
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In order to keep the spam out of my in box I would be willing to have to pay for each email I send and also have the spammers do the same; say 4 or 5 cents each to: address. It seems to me that spam would no longer be as profitable and would be greatly reduced by stopping those that are getting one hit per million. The problem is who should get the money? Not the ISPs, definitely not governments. Maybe set up some sort of corporation that would fund the set up of mail relays that check for some sort of prepaid encrypted "reciept" attached to every email and just drop any without it, Have the corporation go after the few spammers left that were willing to pay by refusing to sell them any more email. Then maybe the corporation could use the money to give grants for open source project development or maybe inovation awards kind of like a techie nobel prize. Whatever we can come up with that would contribute to the common good within the computing / networking world.