Noel,
J. Noel Chiappa wrote:
The *only* thing that's going to stop spam is charging for
email. Everything else is a waste of time.
I agree. The reason why junk paper mail and catalogs stay under control
is because they cost a lot of money to send.
because you're going to run into impossible arguments
trying to define what's spam, and what's legitimate
bulk email.
Yes. Sigh.
Needless to say, charging for email means changing the
underlying protocols. That's us. It's not going to be simple
(we need an underlying micro-payments system),
I would like mega-payments please.
and it's going to take a lot of attention to detail
(q.v. IETF-Announce again), but I think it's the only
real cure.
I think that I would like is a system that charges $20 for each email
received. No money, no email. Then if the email is spam the recipient
(me) keeps the money. You can be sure that at $20 a spam I would drop
all my filters and begin to read them.
If the email is not tagged as spam after say a week, the system charges
it back. Such a system is going to be extremely difficult to deploy
though.
Michel.