 joetaxpayerI'M Here Till Thursday
join:2001-09-07
Sudbury, MA | Looking for a Solution in this age of keys, encryption, etc, I can see a simple solution. I give a friend my email address, it also has a 'key'. The key has a security level just like the encryption used for online banking. Same goes for signing up at a business or any mailing list. If I get an email that uses the key I generated for 'Best Buy's mailer, but it's clear that it was passed on to a spammer, I kill the key and stop shopping with Best Buy.
The comparisons to junk mail are indeed flawed since spam costs the sender very little if anything.
I'd like congress to compare it to phone soliciting. If 10,000 marketeers got your home number, and 100 called per night, you know there'd be an uproar, and you'd pay to block unidentified callers.
As far as the junk mail, when they send a business reply envelope, I stuff their junk in it along with any other trash I have from the day's mail, and let them pay to get it back. If everyone would do this, the mail would slow down a bit cause the cost just jumped. My two cents.
JOE |
