From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 12:57:41 MDT
Spike wrote:
> On Monday 14 July 2003 22:38, Steve Davies wrote:
>
>> Am I just being simple but isn't a simple solution to charge for
>> sending emails? Quite a modest charge would make spam unprofitable
>
>
> Who would collect the money?
### You, the email receiver.
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Where would it go?
### Well, ask yourself what you want to spend your money on...
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> How would you collect if someone hijacked your
> email address and sent out a billion spams?
### The spams would bounce, because there would be no payment associated
with them, unless the spammer paid from his own pocket (or gained access to
your wallet, but this is a different issue).
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How
> would we collect from those Nigerian bankers, etc.
>
### E-cash, Paypal, Visa, whatever you set your email program to accept.
It's the account *owner* who demands a fee to paid to him to allow an email
to show up in his inbox, not the ISP, or some evil government agency.
Rafal
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