Making spammers pay for your attention

Again, from Slashdot, there is a professor at Boston University who is releasing a paper discussing the details of an idea to charge spammers based for your attention. If you read a message and you feel it was a waste of time, then they have to pay you for that time. Otherwise, no fee.
Similar things have been discussed before and generally shot down - I think the very first post on that Slashdot article actually comments towards this very well (and amusingly) as well as the responses to said comment.

Posted by Eric at May 18, 2005 08:53 AM | TrackBack