Yet another idea for stopping spam

Going along with the general idea of charging spammers for the e-mail that they send in order to get it delivered, this page reports on another concept to add into that pile.

The new solution suggests that Internet users would be allowed to set a price at which they will accept e-mail from an unknown sender. The higher the price, the less spam the recipient is likely to receive.

Recipients can collect the amount they specified for any spam received, unless it was from a pre-approved sender.

I like to think I'm open to new ideas, but this idea is really just a rehash of existing ideas and generally doesn't seem like it will work.
But I would love to be proven wrong and see spam stopped.

I would also like a pony.

Posted by Eric at June 9, 2004 04:19 PM | TrackBack