From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Wed Feb 03 1999 - 19:03:05 MST
EvMick@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2/3/99 1:31:09 PM Central Standard Time,
> retroman@together.net writes:
>
> >
> > Set the ISP mail servers up with a daemon such that any person with an
> email
> > account
> > can establish a list of preferred correspondents, which the email user does
> > not
> > charge a 1-5 cent fee. Anyone else who is unknown to the email box owner
> > must pay
> > the entry fee to communicate with the email box owner. If the owner chooses
> > not to
> > put them on his preferred list, they must either pay the charge or get
> > bounced. The
> > charges that others pay can go toward the mail box owners monthly ISP
> fees...
> > .
> >
> > How about that? I'm sure that spammers will either go broke or fade into
> > obsolescence....
>
> I like it....do you mind if I forward that idea along to my ISP. Being that
> it is AOL I doubt there will be any action taken but certainly no action will
> be taken otherwise.
>
> EvMick
Not at all, though others claim to have suggested it as well... it seems rather
obvious.
My big question is why is it that spammers are allowed to email with fraudulent
headers anyways. ..
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