What if a system was set up in which there was a $0.10 charge to send an email, and that amount was sent to the owner of the email address?
Every time you got an email, you also got $0.10 with it, and every time you sent an email, it cost you $0.10.
You could have an account and put a balance of $10 on there, and as long as you didn't send more than 100 emails at a time without getting any responses, you wouldn't empty your account. Whenever people responded to your emails, you'd get your $0.10 back. This way, email conversations in which both sides were replying would be essentially free for both parties, with neither side being up or down more than $0.10 at a time
However, spammers and others sending out bulk emails would go out of business beacuse they couldn't afford the fees.
This system wouldn't have to be universal - you could set up either a "free" email that doesn't charge to be sent to, or an address that requires the $0.10 deposit.
If companies really wanted to spam you, they still could, but you'd be getting paid to recieve thier spam.
Every time you got an email, you also got $0.10 with it, and every time you sent an email, it cost you $0.10.
You could have an account and put a balance of $10 on there, and as long as you didn't send more than 100 emails at a time without getting any responses, you wouldn't empty your account. Whenever people responded to your emails, you'd get your $0.10 back. This way, email conversations in which both sides were replying would be essentially free for both parties, with neither side being up or down more than $0.10 at a time
However, spammers and others sending out bulk emails would go out of business beacuse they couldn't afford the fees.
This system wouldn't have to be universal - you could set up either a "free" email that doesn't charge to be sent to, or an address that requires the $0.10 deposit.
If companies really wanted to spam you, they still could, but you'd be getting paid to recieve thier spam.
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