Why not just add a charge for every email sent? (I recognize I'm opening myself up for flames here, but listen for a second)
Charge something rediculously small per email, say 5 cents. For inter-office emails, let's say we waive the charge.
This way, in an ideal world, spammers who send out millions or billions of emails a day have to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even hundreds of millions.
I don't know about you guys, but I would be willing to pay 5 cents for each of the 5-10 emails I send out per day to see spammers go broke.
Granted, I see a lot of potential problems with this solution. I still think it would be fun to break spammers where it really hurts.
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Why not just add a charge for every email sent? (I recognize I'm opening myself up for flames here, but listen for a second)
Charge something rediculously small per email, say 5 cents. For inter-office emails, let's say we waive the charge.
This way, in an ideal world, spammers who send out millions or billions of emails a day have to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even hundreds of millions.
I don't know about you guys, but I would be willing to pay 5 cents for each of the 5-10 emails I send out per day to see spammers go broke.
Granted, I see a lot of potential problems with this solution. I still think it would be fun to break spammers where it really hurts.