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Street Justice For Spammers... (none / 0) (#7)
by Tim on Thu Jan 29, 2004 at 10:24:25 PM PDT

I get about 500 e-mails a day currently. To some, that's a lot. To others, including a few friends of mine, that's merely a drop in the bucket. Most of it is spam. Everyone reading this can relate to that. And how exactly do you get off the lists of the spammers? You can't. Not with a 100% level of confidence, anyway. Because clicking a link to unsubscribe or remove yourself actually serves as a raised hand that says, "Hey, I'm a live e-mail address. Whatever you send to my address won't go into the abyss. Send me whatever you have." Cynical? Yes. But, it's realistic. I gotta admit... I don't know how to solve the problem. But, I have a very strong feeling that the Can Spam law won't do it. If there were only a way to charge a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a penny for each e-mail sent. For most users, the cost could be absorbed by the ISPs (or, more realistically, passed on to subscribers without any real impact to the retention of the ISP's subscriber/customer base). But, for the 180 MAJOR spammers, it'd hurt 'em right in the pocketbook since I doubt their conversion ratios would justify the expense. Just a thought... Tim
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