A very simple way to stop spam would be to charge someone a small amount of money for example a penny for every email that is sent. That amount will go to the person who is receiving the email. Thus for every email that you send you need to pay a penny and for every email you receive you get a penny. Thus the total cost of sending an email will be zero if whoever you wrote to writes back to you. This will even out the cost of sending and receiving emails. The only person who this would hurt is the spammers who send out millions of emails to total strangers who most often just delete the junk that they receive. So this solution is good for people who use emails for legitimate reasons. Heck this way spammers can send me all the emails that they want, I will just be making money off of them.
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A very simple way to stop spam would be to charge someone a small amount of money for example a penny for every email that is sent. That amount will go to the person who is receiving the email. Thus for every email that you send you need to pay a penny and for every email you receive you get a penny. Thus the total cost of sending an email will be zero if whoever you wrote to writes back to you. This will even out the cost of sending and receiving emails. The only person who this would hurt is the spammers who send out millions of emails to total strangers who most often just delete the junk that they receive. So this solution is good for people who use emails for legitimate reasons. Heck this way spammers can send me all the emails that they want, I will just be making money off of them.