By the way, if there WAS a centralized spam filtration somewhere, as you seem to be proposing, there would still be "a giant" snooping everyone's mail. Or did you not realize that.
Re:E-mail is the Universal Platform
by jonmrodriguez on Thursday January 05, 2012 @01:11AM
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hammock, blueplastic didn't say to centralize spam filtration. He said to make messages cost money, thus making spamming unprofitable. This is totally different from the machine-learned-model-reads-all-my-mail situation that we have now AND totally different from a centralized Big Brother antispam agency.
Re:E-mail is the Universal Platform
by blueplastic on Thursday January 05, 2012 @02:05AM
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Thanks, Jon. That's exactly what I meant.
Right now spam filtration is decentralized (as it should be), and there's NOTHING stopping an email provider like Gmail or Hotmail or [fill in your new startup] from CHARGING senders a fee to actually deliver mail to your personal inbox.
If you think your charge-per-message makes sense, then build your own email server that intercepts incoming messages and makes sure they've been paid for before distributing them to you (or your customers). No one is stopping you.