One more tip. When you set up the personal email side of the software, make it crack proof. In other words, set it up so that if the system detects more than one personal email coming from a computer at a time it's IP address is automatically and immediately blocked. This person would then have to go through an appeal with his or her ISP to get it unblocked.
The current smtp system was not set up to be regulated from it's inception. That's why it must be scrapped.
You guys have come up with a lot of different ideas here to try to combat spammers, but unfortunately not one of them that I have read will work in the real world. To effectively regulate spam, the current smtp emailing system will have to be scrapped and a new one put in it's place. This is because, even if you could regulate U.S. spam on the current system, you would not be able to stop international spam and spammers will just set up email servers outside U.S. borders.
Right now the smtp system of emailing can be compared to the early days of the telephone when we used party lines. Anyone could pick up a phone and call anywhere and be charged the same as the person who calls no one. Spammers cannot fight the temptation to get a $9.95 dial-up account and blast out millions of emails. The only way to stop them is to put in a new system, such as they did with the telephone system. Now when you pick up the phone to make a call, you are charged. Why don't long distance companies get mad when their customers use their service to make unsolicited sales calls? It's because they are paying for it. Therein lies the key. Set up a new email system that can charge for bulk email. Divide the email system up into two categories - one for personal and one for commercial. Make the system so that only one personal email can be launched from a computer at a time. Put two separate inboxes in the new email software, one for personal and one for bulk email. Then bulk emailers could purchase blocks of email from their ISP. Those who don't want to read spam would just never open their bulk inbox. This would also cause the international market to buy into our new technology if they wanted to send email of any kind to the U.S.
Problem solved. Now wasn't that easy? Just takes a little thought instead of a lot of frustration. Now go to it techies. Create this system and sell it to Bill Gates.
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One more tip. When you set up the personal email side of the software, make it crack proof. In other words, set it up so that if the system detects more than one personal email coming from a computer at a time it's IP address is automatically and immediately blocked. This person would then have to go through an appeal with his or her ISP to get it unblocked. The current smtp system was not set up to be regulated from it's inception. That's why it must be scrapped.
You guys have come up with a lot of different ideas here to try to combat spammers, but unfortunately not one of them that I have read will work in the real world. To effectively regulate spam, the current smtp emailing system will have to be scrapped and a new one put in it's place. This is because, even if you could regulate U.S. spam on the current system, you would not be able to stop international spam and spammers will just set up email servers outside U.S. borders. Right now the smtp system of emailing can be compared to the early days of the telephone when we used party lines. Anyone could pick up a phone and call anywhere and be charged the same as the person who calls no one. Spammers cannot fight the temptation to get a $9.95 dial-up account and blast out millions of emails. The only way to stop them is to put in a new system, such as they did with the telephone system. Now when you pick up the phone to make a call, you are charged. Why don't long distance companies get mad when their customers use their service to make unsolicited sales calls? It's because they are paying for it. Therein lies the key. Set up a new email system that can charge for bulk email. Divide the email system up into two categories - one for personal and one for commercial. Make the system so that only one personal email can be launched from a computer at a time. Put two separate inboxes in the new email software, one for personal and one for bulk email. Then bulk emailers could purchase blocks of email from their ISP. Those who don't want to read spam would just never open their bulk inbox. This would also cause the international market to buy into our new technology if they wanted to send email of any kind to the U.S. Problem solved. Now wasn't that easy? Just takes a little thought instead of a lot of frustration. Now go to it techies. Create this system and sell it to Bill Gates.