New blocker lets you bill the spammer

[bobbi]

What do you guys think about this?


An Australian entrepreneur has created what may be the first antispam service that lets its users charge for the privilege of sending them e-mail.
The concept has been discussed in technology circles for the better part of a decade, but Sydney resident Bernard Palmer, 59, has decided to try to turn the concept into a business. "Spammers aren't going to be sending many spams to you if you charge them 50 cents," Palmer said. "A spam would cost them $2 million."

Palmer's service, which he plans to announce on Thursday, is called CashRamSpam.com. After people pay $36 with a credit card to sign up for a CashRamSpam account, users may set their contact fee to be anywhere from a few pennies to as high as they think anyone would be willing to pay.

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[deadserious]

That would be cool! I would love to be able to charge money for each email I received that I didn't want. Just send me lots of email that I don't want lol. :D

It's a good idea I suppose, but well I just don't think it would actually work, but you never know.

 

[bobbi]

lol it would be nice to get 2 million dollars for each spam e-mail, I'm sure that alot of us would never work again. My yahoo account gets at least 50 spam mails a day for things that are just stupid.

 

[pistol]

I've never got spam, honestly, i'm not blowing smoke up your *ss. I set my filters, and I have a seperate account for signing up for stuff. Never had a problem with it.

This program is a variation of one Bill Gates wrote an essay on quite a while back. In the version he envisioned, everyone who sends you an email will be charged, but if you wanted the email, you'd drop the charges. Of course, every time I got an e-mail from someone, I'd have to ask myself "How much is this friendship worth? hmmmmm....."