| You wanna play, you gotta pay. I think its come down to this, we have to pay per e-mail. I'm sorry. I'm ready to strangle myself for saying it. I loathed the idea 2 years ago, but I think we're left with no other choice. We have to hit the spammers in their wallets. Not just when they get caught, but we have to hit them EVERY TIME THEY SEND E-MAIL!!!
As I'm sure has been suggested:
Make every e-mail out cost 5¢ each. Charge an additional 2¢ for each bounced e-mail.
Here's the good part. Every time you receive (not read, only receive) an e-mail, you receive 4¢. Yep, PAY US TO RECEIVE YOUR SPAM EVEN IF WE HAVE SOFTWARE AUTOMATICALLY DELETE IT!!!!! I personally get 50 spams per day, so in a month (30 days) I'd make $60. Y'know what...I kinda like spam now. 
Of course, our ISPs are not philanthropists. Each ISP keeps 1¢ per email and all 7¢ for bouncing e-mail for administering this system.
1 million e-mails would cost $50,000 assuming every spam hit a legitimate e-mail account, $70,000 to a spammer assuming every one bounced. You don't get paid for receiving your bounces.
Non-spammers: Sending a joke to 100 friends? That's $5.00. Sent a virus to 1000 people? That's gonna be $50.00 (you coulda bought antivirus software for that.) Hijacked PC? Prove it and settle in arbitration.
Of course, this is VERY simplistic, but I think the concept is a step in the right direction. |
