1 cent emails
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1 cent emails
We all get SPAM - if you have one of those free email accounts offered by one of the millions of companies out there it’s probably safe to say 70% of your email is just SPAM. Sadly for you folks there isn’t much for you to do other than rely on the company that offers the free email (don’t hold your breath).If you are one of the lucky people that actually have their own domain name the you can create your own email addresses. More than likely you also have access to your web server and can install various things like SpamAssassin.
Today, while reading my various website before actually working I came across Joel on Software. A site where some guy just talks about various things on software. It’s actually a really fun site to read.
On of the things he noted just the other day was an idea for emails.
Here’s what I’d like to see: a system that delivers an email for one cent.İNobody hasİto use it, but if you want to get your messages through, you pay one cent and the system delivers it for you. Every spam filtering system on earth can safely whitelist all email that comes from the one cent server, because no spammer can afford the penny times theİ19 million messages they send.
I would use it for all my email. You could even give 3/4s of a cent to the recipient as a credit to use for sending their own mail, keeping the 1/4 cent to pay for the servers. Eventually, if it caught on, you wouldn’t need a spam filter: just put all the free email in a suspect folder, and check it once a week in case some old school holdouts insist on sending you email without paying.
I’m still wondering how good of an idea this would be. For the most part your company would foot such costs - however personal users would have to put up alittle money. Interestly there’s a quick SPAM finacial calculator that will give you and idea of how much your spending on SPAM now - just by taking time to delete them.
This topic is to big for me to talk about in just one little post. Maybe I’ll write an article on various ideas/solutions to SPAM. Note that there really isn’t a sure fire way you’ll get NO SPAM. You’ll get SPAM one way or another. We’re just trying to cut down the amount.
Jeremy Says:
Great idea! Who’s in?