by kls 18 Replies latest jw friends
Umm...let me think about that, NO!!!
There are better ways of stopping spam like aggressively shutting down the domains that send out the spam and creating permanent list of people banned from owning domains for reasons of spamming.
It also might not hurt to have a few high profile arrest made for spamming. People might think twice if they knew they might be spending 10 years in a federal pen getting bent over by Bubba every night, lol.
Not sure where you got the info...but its bogus....esp. when the name "Bill Gates" gets thrown in there. He didn't invent the internet, people! *sigh*
Egads I'm a webmaster of more than one site if I had to pay even a penny for email I'm sure I could wrack up a three figure bill in a year.
I think the idea has some merit.
Paying a dollar or less for every 100 emails I send would not kill me (and probably improve the quality of my emails ) BUT if I was going to send hundreds of millions to everyone I'd harvested emails for ... well, it wouldn't make financial sense.
Don't forget that spammers make money. The only reason they send spam is because someone is advertising with them. Remove the financial incentive and they will disappear.
The other solution of course is to find anyone who buys things from Spam email and break their legs. If people didn't buy frmo them then they wouldn't do it either !
Remember when double glazing salesmen and the like call ... they only do it because someone somewhere must say "ooh yes, do come in ..."
Do you mean to say anyone actually pays for porn or needs to extend their penis?
i have aol spam blocking and it works pretty good, but they still get by. I have words specifed that if an e-mail has it in the subject line it will put it in the spam folder. Trouble is, they will cheat and spell
penis -peniz and so on. So the junk still gets through.
and the spam blocker ends up blocking wanted mail, so nothing is perfect.
I don't have a spam blocker on Outlook but i never use they accountn to cruise the net, but lately i have noticed spam in it. Anyone know hwo to set spam controls for outlook?
It would probably be only a cent or two
If the cost stayed at a cent or two that wouldn't be so bad, but once this box is opened it will result in the cost steadily going up. The US Govrenment, upset because email hurt postal revenues, has already made noises about taxing email. Wonder who else wants to jump on board??
Trouble is, they will cheat and spell penis -peniz and so on. So the junk still gets through.
True, also true is any kind of blockers can cause problems. I read about a lady had some kind of porn blocker installed on her computer to keep her children nice and innocent. Well she found a lump on her breast and decided to research breast cancer, but the computer said no way. Breast is apparently one of the words the program tagreted.
Simon, I think there is a third option besides charging a penny per e-mail sent or breaking the legs of spammers although the latter sounds kind of fun, lol.
I think if ICANN and internet registrar companies would aggressively pursue and shut down the domains that spam is sent from and paired that with creating a list of people and organizations barred from purchasing future domains would greatly cut the amount of spam on the net.
Yes it would be an expensive system to set up, but the cost saving that reducing the bandwidth usage of spam could possibly save ISPs, broadband leasers and telecom companies might generate enough profit incentive to implement it -- just an idea, not necessarily a very good one.
