Randomthots wrote:

Would you be willing to spend $0.01 per email? My idea behind the fee-bate was two-fold: make spam a lot more expensive to send out and reimburse recipients and ISPs for the

A simpler way to achieve the same result without actually spending money (in any way you'd recognize as such) is Hashcash:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

The idea is beautifully simple. Require the sender to solve a simple math problem, that takes about 1 second of CPU time. For a regular emailer this is a very minor inconvenience, but for a spammer it is magnitudes more expensive.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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