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Originally posted by charly
There is an easier way and one that will stop all spam. Give people the option to pay a cent for every email over 1,000 per month. For large companies with big sites, it could be a free 1,000 per gig on a hosting service.
Businesses like mine that rely on mailing clients would be happy to pay it. Contacts would welcome getting an email instead of hating it. Fewer would get filtered out, therefore increasing profit margins, less time would be spent removing spam.
The big spammers work on sending out millions of emails, let them have to pay out $1,0,000 per million and they would soon disappear. This would also apply to all countries, because the recieving email program could be set to accept or deny free emails. The recpient would soon realise that spam could be stopped dead in it's tracks and turn off free mail services, who would soon conform.
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Who collects the funds? Who keeps track of whether a "user" has sent over 1000 messages? Who verifies that a message is paid for or not? What about companies who are their own hosts?
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