Women in Technology

Article:		Building Your Personal Anti-Spam Strategy
Subject:		New Anti-Spam Mail-System
Date:		2002-11-13 14:41:36
From:		anonymous2
A perfect solution for the future against spam would be to introduce a new mail protocol. In this new mail protocol a user would have to pay to send an email (but not for receiving them). The amount of payment for each mail can be quite small (even less than a dollarcent). Because spammers always sent mails in very large quantities they will quickly get into large amounts of money. However almost all standard users only sent a limited amount of mails a year (less than a 1000). Disadvantage is that all mail programs will have to be updated for using this protocol. And that every user will have to open an account and transfer some money to it. But I would gladly pay a few dollars to be rid of spam forever!

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• New Anti-Spam Mail-System
  2002-11-18 11:07:56  jdrake [View]
  
  
  This would be very impractical.
  
  A protocol may be defined, Microsoft would try their magic, anybody else and their brother might try the same thing. With so many different providers like this, nobody would want to integrate it.
  
  There would be nothing to stop you from setting up this sort of system on yourself. Then where does payment go? It goes no where, because its your server. This in itself is exactly what would make this ineffective.
  
  A central authority may work, but who will run it? We know how well ICANN and Microsoft have worked as central authorities. ICANN abuses power, and so does Microsoft. Entering another monopoly... charge rates that they want.
  
  Next, competing email providers... might work, but you still have fraudulant domain providers and this would be no different.
  
  There must be some other way to make it so that it is not economically feasible for spammers to operate.