What about e-mail spam? The technology seems to prohibit an effective ban
on spam, yet neither an economic nor legal solution seems
available. Any thoughts on whether spam can be reduced via
some sort of economic or technical mechanism?
Fabio
I don't have specific expertise on email
A problem with Fred's solution is that the most obnoxious spammers would
probably set their field to the non-spam when they sent out spam, in
order to increase the probability that it would be read. This would be
similar to spammers using subject-fields such as Re: Hello and In answer
to your
