Charles Smith

London

Consultant

The ISP's and Anti-SPAM organisations have had plenty of opportunity to deal with this issue. They have also spoken with both the House of Commons and the House of Lords when legislation was formulated. They both continue to wring their hands and say that nothing can be done. The answer is plain and straight forward. That is to charge a 1 cent per message email tax on each email message. If the message does not bear a certified email tax payment it should then just be dropped at the Internet Hubs.

The proceed from the email tax could be used to fund development of the Internet.

A Spammer sending 10 Million SPAM emails would have to find $100,000 to despatch those messages.

With the current set up the SPAM companies have nothing to gain from supporting such a system as it would reduce their income.