Paul Markham2

i don't think it will cost, natural competition between hosts will keep it right. Let's say they give 500 emails per month for free with every account, then 1,000 for every Gig or $100 you send with them a month. The figures are just my stab in the dark.

Then for extra emails you pay 1 cent, bulk mailers sending out 1 million emails are faced with a bill of $100,000 for a million. Too much to make bulk spamming profitable, low enough for genuine businesses who rely on a mailing list to infrom/promote to their clients.

Less animosity towards "Newsletter spam", less filtering, no need to pay for programds like Spam Arrest, no need to spend an hour or more everyday deleting offers to make your dick, harder longer and more effective. Is that worth it?

There will always be free mail servers, but email programs can opt in or out of taking mail from them. The spammer can no longer hijack your mail server. Do you think he's going to send out a million emails before he sees the money? He will want the money first.

But it's not my idea, it's Bill gates and the best one I've heard about dealing with spam. It's a problem we have to address or sink under a flood of unwanted emails.