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Can we have the same solution for email address? Say you have to pay money in order to email me, that might get rid of spam!

by usaphp 13y ago

antidaily 13y ago
[ insert Bill Gates $1 to send emails joke ]
gknoy 13y ago
I believe people have talked about something similar, namely requiring cryptographic operations which are relatively cheap (time, electricity cost) to do for one email at a time, but which would make it infeasible for bulk mailing spam.
- dllthomas 13y ago
  People have also proposed it with money; I believe the overhead has consistently been too high.
- claudius 13y ago
  Only accepting encrypted email would be a start, I guess – at the very least, the sender has to know the ~1 kB for the public key and he also has to encrypt every email individually.
- 9ac345a5509a 13y ago
  One such system is Hashcash [0], there is an extension for Thunderbird [1] which uses it. The only thing is that legitimate mass emails (think mailing lists) will be delayed as well, unless some sort of exception is added. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash [1] http://pennypost.sourceforge.net/PennyPost
  - fryguy 13y ago
    I think the standard solution for the mailing lists is the "subscription" email pays the hashcash, but has an automated way to whitelist the email upon receipt.
codva 13y ago
A friend tried something like this a few years ago. He built a resume site where recruiters had to pay to contract you about a job. If you didn't respond in 24 hours they got a full refund. If you responded (even if the answer was, not interested)then you and the site shared the revenue (70/30 IIRC). Each person set their own price. I thought it was a cool idea but he launched in 2008 just as the economy tanked and he never got any traction.
AznHisoka 13y ago
Autorespond to recruiters with a link to your "updated resume", but make it an Amazon affiliate link instead. Any purchase they make in Amazon in that same day = commission
- cpeterso 13y ago
  Or sell your resume as a PDF or e-book on Amazon!

Can we have the same solution for email address? Say you have to pay money in order to email me, that might get rid of spam!

by usaphp 13y ago

Can we have the same solution for email address? Say you have to pay money in order to email me, that might get rid of spam!

antidaily 13y ago

[ insert Bill Gates $1 to send emails joke ]

gknoy 13y ago

I believe people have talked about something similar, namely requiring cryptographic operations which are relatively cheap (time, electricity cost) to do for one email at a time, but which would make it infeasible for bulk mailing spam.

dllthomas 13y ago
People have also proposed it with money; I believe the overhead has consistently been too high.
claudius 13y ago
Only accepting encrypted email would be a start, I guess – at the very least, the sender has to know the ~1 kB for the public key and he also has to encrypt every email individually.
9ac345a5509a 13y ago
One such system is Hashcash [0], there is an extension for Thunderbird [1] which uses it. The only thing is that legitimate mass emails (think mailing lists) will be delayed as well, unless some sort of exception is added. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash [1] http://pennypost.sourceforge.net/PennyPost
- fryguy 13y ago
  I think the standard solution for the mailing lists is the "subscription" email pays the hashcash, but has an automated way to whitelist the email upon receipt.

codva 13y ago

A friend tried something like this a few years ago. He built a resume site where recruiters had to pay to contract you about a job. If you didn't respond in 24 hours they got a full refund. If you responded (even if the answer was, not interested)then you and the site shared the revenue (70/30 IIRC). Each person set their own price. I thought it was a cool idea but he launched in 2008 just as the economy tanked and he never got any traction.

AznHisoka 13y ago

Autorespond to recruiters with a link to your "updated resume", but make it an Amazon affiliate link instead. Any purchase they make in Amazon in that same day = commission

cpeterso 13y ago
Or sell your resume as a PDF or e-book on Amazon!