NEW YORK (AP) -- If the U.S. Postal Service delivered mail for free, our mailboxes would surely runneth over with more credit-card offers, sweepstakes entries, and supermarket fliers. That's why we get so much junk e-mail: It's essentially free to send. So Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates, among others, is now suggesting that we start buying "stamps" for e-mail.
Gates proposes buying stamps to send email...
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Krimson Klaw
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Gates proposes buying stamps to send email...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/0 ... index.html
The idea about taking a quick quiz is a good idea, but do you have to score over a certain percentage to send the e-mail? Why don't they just make it so there's a random generated picture with numbers on it that you enter every time you want to e-mail something? I've seen that on a few websites to stop spam companies from signing up to their message boards or something.
The 1 cent thing per e-mail could get kinda dangerous. In my office, I send over 50 e-mails a day. My superviser, well over 150, any of the account managers can make over 200. That can add up. You have a company my size, at 1 cent... that's rediculous. What about e-mail worms too? That could potentially charge thousands of dollars.
There really is no clear cut answer to solve spam...
The 1 cent thing per e-mail could get kinda dangerous. In my office, I send over 50 e-mails a day. My superviser, well over 150, any of the account managers can make over 200. That can add up. You have a company my size, at 1 cent... that's rediculous. What about e-mail worms too? That could potentially charge thousands of dollars.
There really is no clear cut answer to solve spam...
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VariaVespasa
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The other suggestion in that article about having to devote say 10 seconds of comp time to communal problem solving per email sent sounds interesting enough to warrant a closer look I think. At that rate a single comp could handle the load to "pay" for about 60k emails a week or so, so most legitimate corporate, support or fan operations wouldnt be affected, but large spammers would appear to eat a significant increase in their costs, both of setup and day-to-day operation, which might be enough to cripple them. Worth a harder look to see if it could actually do the trick or if there are fatal flaws with the idea at least I think.
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I don't see this ever happening. There are too many free email clients out there and no company is goign to want to pay for soemthign that is free. A couple of companies tried to charge for emails in the early 90's and both went bankrupt from lack of business.
Spam isn't going to be stopped anytime soon. They should try passing a law instead that gives companies and individuals the right to bill spammers and their internet providers for every unwanted email that they receive. It really isn't that difficult to track down the companies that are paying for spamming services. This might just force them out of country but it will make it harder for them if you can go after the spammers, companies paying spammers and the internet providers.
Spam isn't going to be stopped anytime soon. They should try passing a law instead that gives companies and individuals the right to bill spammers and their internet providers for every unwanted email that they receive. It really isn't that difficult to track down the companies that are paying for spamming services. This might just force them out of country but it will make it harder for them if you can go after the spammers, companies paying spammers and the internet providers.
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The government would have to recognize and inforce the latest communication protocols for use over the internet to prevent the spoofing of source.
Then you could actually start tracking down the people responsible.
Alternately, you could set up email so that all mail is undeliverable to you unless it is from an authorized source. This doesn't prevent the wire use, but does prevent you from seeing most of it, which is good enough to cause the river to dry up once it becomes how all the email clients work.
Then you could actually start tracking down the people responsible.
Alternately, you could set up email so that all mail is undeliverable to you unless it is from an authorized source. This doesn't prevent the wire use, but does prevent you from seeing most of it, which is good enough to cause the river to dry up once it becomes how all the email clients work.
What you should *really* be fearing here, is that paid email, need to be handled by a "company" that is authorising the email has been paid.Dalmoth wrote:The government would have to recognize and inforce the latest communication protocols for use over the internet to prevent the spoofing of source.
Then you could actually start tracking down the people responsible.
Alternately, you could set up email so that all mail is undeliverable to you unless it is from an authorized source. This doesn't prevent the wire use, but does prevent you from seeing most of it, which is good enough to cause the river to dry up once it becomes how all the email clients work.
There's nothing to stop them saying, "Oh yes, we can't authorise encrypted email, the NSA.. I mean, our computers have problems with it".
Which means that the government would have a nice convenient routing point to collect all their email wiretaps, in the clear.. Of course, all the criminals would still use peer to peer email servers and encryption, so ummm why would they need email taps anyway, they have them now you know.. must be a reason.. *ponder*