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Pay the recipient of the e-mail
First of all, I think that spam is destroying the spirit of the Internet.

But nevermind. This is my suggestion:
It will cost you one cent (or something like that) to send an e-mail. When you receive an e-mail, you will be credited one cent. If you send about as much e-mail as you get then it will even out. Only mass spammers will have to pay significant amounts.

This way no big corporations get stinking rich, spammers get poor, and ordinary people get less spam and perhaps a very small amount of money.
Posted by: Ronny102   Posted on: 02/07/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Do we trust AOL and Yahoo....  JoeMama_z | 02/07/06
Bad idea  amorde | 02/07/06
Hostage Email and False Positives  powella@... | 02/09/06
I doubt the spirit of the Internet is their goal  BitTwiddler | 02/07/06
Pay the recipient of the e-mail  Ronny102 | 02/07/06
only works for personal email  Flubnut | 02/07/06
Pay the "Recipient"  toj@... | 02/08/06
How's that?  John Zern | 02/07/06
Not directly..  Patrick Jones | 02/07/06
Freedoms? Rights?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/07/06
Re: Freedoms? Rights?  yyuko@... | 02/07/06
The constitution doesn't say...  rapson | 02/07/06
I agree (nt)  CobraA1 | 02/07/06
Sorry but no, no where does the Constitution say  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/07/06
or  LinuxHippie | 02/08/06
freedom of communication  unclefixer@... | 09/15/08
I want to publish a book, it shouldn't cost me anything...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/07/06
You can do it if you look hard enough.  Patrick Jones | 02/07/06
Yes indeed you did leave one out.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/07/06
Easily fixed  tic swayback | 02/07/06
No, I didn't  Patrick Jones | 02/08/06
Send it to me  tic swayback | 02/08/06
Good way to lose customers  tic swayback | 02/07/06
Or win customers over...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/07/06
Doesn't sound like control to me  tic swayback | 02/07/06
I agree  Patrick Jones | 02/08/06
Re: Or win customers over...  none none | 02/08/06
Simply Block Yahoo/AOL  DragonBRockin | 02/08/06
Gimme yer dough or get a deluge of Spam!  RTedrow | 02/08/06
As long as you use your ISP's e-mail and not something like Yahoo or G-mail  Betelgeuse58 | 02/08/06
Pay at both ends though? Like Cellphone Plans?  powella@... | 02/09/06
All too true and NOT funny!  Betelgeuse58 | 02/11/06
Another Idea  DaveMc_z | 02/08/06
Yahoo charging for e-mail!  JOKER-JIM | 02/08/06
bull crap  jasong8301 | 02/08/06
e-mail payment plan  tomcatv1 | 02/09/06
Give the people a universal line item veto  steventwill | 02/12/06
RE: Anti-spam groups reject e-mail payment plan  mcsystemsgb | 09/16/08

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