Would you pay a penny per sent email if it meant stopping spam?

[OC]

Well?

I sure as hell would.

-OC

[guiseppewv]

I would too but I don't get that much spam. I think the keys to stopping spam is to a) have a secondary or tertiary e-mail account for signing up for stuff that you know is going to get you spam and b) have an e-mail filter.

[faither]

I wouldn't pay. It's an annoyance for me but that's it. If there is a real burden on ISP's, they should implement some more robust filters and slam the humps that are sending it.

[Jeffbx]

No way - if they start charging for e-mail to eliminate spam, then what's next? A nickel a view for pop-up free web sites?

No thanks - it's an annoyance I'll put up with.

[revil]

no thanks, it's an annoyance i'll legislate away. if only other people would raise their voice against these bastards.

[Joshua]

I already pay more than that! $39.95/mo!

Bastards! I want a T3 line to my door!

[Peachhead]

Originally posted by SnotRocket
I already pay more than that! $39.95/mo!

Bastards! I want a T3 line to my door!

Amen!

[Merlin]

No. To me it seem a little extortionary. You only get things the way they should be by paying extra? Sounds a lot loke having to pay Mr. Soprano for "protection"

[RoniMan]

Originally posted by Merlin
No. To me it seem a little extortionary. You only get things the way they should be by paying extra? Sounds a lot loke having to pay Mr. Soprano for "protection"
that's right, and if you don't pay up, they're not responsible if something "accidental" happens to your email...like a lot more spam...oh wait, that already happens.

[ShortStack]

Has it really gotten this bad that we have to "pay" for our spam? I mean, it's not our fault it's there and just because that happens doesn't mean it'll stop. It's called a delete button people!

[Jabberwocky]

I don't think i would stop spam. Junk mail keeps coming and it costs like 37 cent to sen deach one.

[ufcrusher]

I agree with the jaberwocky...they get more money by spending spam then they would by not sending it, even if it cost them a penny per person. There has to be a better way to monitor it

[ProMinx]

How about a death penalty for three-time spammers...? I'd be game for that.

ProMinx

[InfiniteNothing]

How about we pay 3 cents and it goes to the recipient. Then we'll welcome the spam

[mojo]

you mean that food product, right? hayell yeah! :D

[Burzhui]

No i send way to many emails per month

[Booyamos]

no way, email = free and that's the way it should be. If they start making people pay for it what's next. They already want us to pay for everything else out there on the net, subscriptions to every site.. bah

[whitak24]

no

i can delete all my spam in about 2 minutes.

and i'm not paying for email....

[Cubsfan]

How about a different idea? How about you get up to 2000 free emails a month, or you can get more if you have "special status" (something like discussion lists, etc...). I don't think most people send that many emails a month. What this is really meant to do is combat the spammers who send 250,000,000 emails a day.

[OC]

I think it really needs to start with Federal privacy laws. I don't understand why it is legal for companies to sell ANY of my personal information.

If I do business with Company X, why in the world should I be contacted by Company Y?

If I go to a bar (or wherever) and get some hotties phone number, I have no right in the world to give her number to anyone else. She gave to ME, not Joe sitting at the end of the bar. In fact, if I did end up giving her number to Joe, she could likely sue me and win. Businesses selling your personal info should be no different.

This whole sharing of information for marketing purposes is a huge problem. But then, many of you already know what I think about people in marketing. ;)

Also - it would be *incredibly* handy to have simple-to-use White Lists. (M$, are you listening?!?) If a From address is not in the White List, it gets blocked, or moved to a semi-hidden folder for a week (or other time that you can set). This way, if you think that you missed an email, you can still have a week to go into that folder and retrieve it.

I am using MailWasher for a White List of sorts, but I still see the spam before I delete it. I want to not even SEE the stuff.

-OC

[Merlin]

Originally posted by overclocked
I think it really needs to start with Federal privacy laws. I don't understand why it is legal for companies to sell ANY of my personal information.


Because it is not your information. They collected it stored it sorted it etc. If you wanted it to be your information then don't tell them. When I do stuff on-line I very rarely give valid information. If I order a product they don't get my phone number and only get a spam account. Bottom line is that it is YOUR responsibility to keep your information private. Not the government's or anyone else's but yours.

[Nanotech9]

we run our own FreeBSD based spam stopper at work - works great - it labels the suspected email, which i direct immediately to a special folder... i review it once a week and then trash it. (it will auto-trash it too if you set it up that way).

[mojo]

Originally posted by Merlin


Because it is not your information. They collected it stored it sorted it etc. If you wanted it to be your information then don't tell them. When I do stuff on-line I very rarely give valid information. If I order a product they don't get my phone number and only get a spam account. Bottom line is that it is YOUR responsibility to keep your information private. Not the government's or anyone else's but yours. just because ppl roll over and accept something doesn't make it ok.

spam actually does cost us all money as servers are actually needed to send them, filter them, etc.

much better to have it be that we subscribe to spam lists instead of having them forced upon us. why should i even have to waste 2 minutes of my day to take out someone else's trash? why should i make an extra effort to do anything to protect myself when there are better options?

[Merlin]

Originally posted by mojo
just because ppl roll over and accept something doesn't make it ok.

spam actually does cost us all money as servers are actually needed to send them, filter them, etc.

much better to have it be that we subscribe to spam lists instead of having them forced upon us. why should i even have to waste 2 minutes of my day to take out someone else's trash? why should i make an extra effort to do anything to protect myself when there are better options?
Don't get me wrong, I hate this crap too. Some people take a proactive role in stopping it by setting up filters, me, I recommend being far more selective with information. Asking the powers that be to attempt (I say attempt because that is all it will be as dem dar evil doers will find a way around anything set up by the gubmint :P )to stop it is an exercise in futility and a waste of time.

[mojo]

oh, ok. well that's different.

i also realized tho that most of my spam comes from those spam-guessers that don't even have your/my information. they just send to lists of names and they alter the names in a huge guessing game of some sort in hopes that some of them will be actual email addresses. i'll look at the list and it'll have [email protected],[email protected],[email protected]...etc. very silly stuff. i seriously get too much spam and i'm considering just abandoning some addresses i've had for years because it takes me too long daily of wading through the crap cuz the filters manage to not work (i get about 100/day at hotmail). it's sad really that i gotta leave my 5 or more year old addies, but i guess that's the way it goes sometimes :shrug:

[Markel]

Until some spammer-lowlife(s) started spoofing my primary email address as the source address for their junk, I received very little spam (maybe a dozen messages a week), most of which I would have to log on to my isp web site to check in the BrightMail-filtered special folder. But now the number has increased dramatically :mad: so I am asking that my primary address not be carried over directly into the comcast domain name. I figure if I have to get people to change from <mumble>@attbi.com, they might as well change to <mrumble>@comcast.<com or net> (whatever it will be).