The problem with that idea: it relies on ISP's distinguishing end users and
mail servers. Some ISPs are known to make a distinction on price (i.e. they 
would charge much more for full access than not) or - as previous discussions 
have shown -
do not even distinguish static ip and dynamic ip customers

Mark Perkel wrote:
Imagine a policy where ISPs blocked port 25 for consumers by default and 
forced them to talk to mail servers on port 587 to send SMTP. Suppose 
that all SMTP servers who took email from consumers had port 587 open as 
well as port 25.

If port 25 were blocked from consumers and they were forced to talk to 
servers on port 587, even without authentication, then a server could 
distinguish consumers from other servers. I think this kind of 
configuration could be used to help isolate virus infected computers 
from spamming and spreading.

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