The quick solution to raising their costs is to have a $0.01 tax/charge per message, which puts that cost of even a 'tiny' mass mailing for 500,000 messages at $5000.00. But then you open up the whole Pandoras box of who collects the taxes, who gets the taxes etc etc etc.

The charge would have to apply to ANY email message, same for corporations and individuals, otherwise these scummers will find a way around it. Actually I think they'd find a way around it anyway.

In reply to Re: Re: OT: Spammers Vs Mail::SpamAssassin and the Winner Is... by ptkdb
in thread OT: Spammers Vs Mail::SpamAssassin and the Winner Is... by ptkdb

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