Topic: A Theory to End Spam;
started by: forumwhore
Posted by forumwhore on Jul. 13 2002,19:15
Read this in the LA Times the other day, and asked for permission to quote or repeat the article, no answer back.
Alrighty then.
There's an idea out there, that using your email account like Hotmail, you could allow certain people to email you for free, friends and family, etc.
If you haven't allowed the email, the second time the sender will be charged.
BINGO! An end to spam!
If they gotta pay to spam us, they might think twice!
I'm tired of Russian Underage Virgins Molested While I Make Thousands Using My Computer At Home to Make Money While I Gamble Online and My History Folder Is Not Safe From Intrusion! My Penis Doesn't Need Enlargement, Nor Do I Need Hot Teen Bitches in My Inbox Daily!
Of course, there's a flip side; if Hotmail can start charging spammers, where and when will they start charging us to receive emails we want from friends?
What do you think?
Posted by Wiley on Jul. 14 2002,01:53
Who's going to be charged? When you trace mail back you're only going to find the ISP who originally relayed the mail. Most likley they didn't know of its content. Who's going to monitor the inboxes of the masses? This is like that hoax letter that goes around saying how congress is going to start charging for email since it is hurting the postal service. It is entirely based on fiction.
Posted by forumwhore on Jul. 14 2002,02:45
I wish I could cutnpaste this, here goes a quote;"Here's how it could work: Companies such as MS and PayPal, could team up to create a system that would allow users to charge anyone they didn't know to send them email. Family and friends would be put on the "free" list and their emails would arrive free. For anyone the user didn't know, a charge of 50 cents (or whatever) could be levied. If, after the payment and the email from the unknown user were received, the user decided that he wanted to communicate with the previously unknown person, he could put that person on the free list and return the money.
Is this feasible?
C. Bbirge, program manager for the MS Office Group, called it 'an interesting idea'."
edited for length,
Quoted from
Sonia Arrison/Director of the Center for Technology Studies at the Pacific Research Institute
LA Times Business Section Monday 8 July 2002 page B11
Posted by Bob_the_Cannibal on Jul. 14 2002,04:24
perhaps, but I prefer a good ruleset. that and making most ppl e-mailing me have a unique identifier tag. if the mail hasn't got the tag, it's going in the shitter.KB: your e-mail address is the tag.
Detnetters: "detnet" is yours.
Posted by Wiley on Jul. 14 2002,04:44
Ok Kevin ...I'm going to show you why it won't work.Check Your Email
Posted by forumwhore on Jul. 14 2002,05:35
Ok, I get it.Wiley's right.
Posted by Wiley on Jul. 14 2002,05:55
| Quote (forumwhore @ 13 July 2002,21:35) |
| Wiley's right. |
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