Another Whack at Spam is tbray's suggestion of making everyone pay 1 cent per email. This old idea has never succeeded for good reason: it has an unsolvable chicken and egg problem, requiring too many parties to make changes to their setups. Instead, we should just make a law to require ISPs to have SMTP throttles, not allowing any ISP to let one of their users send out tons of email. Give the law 12 or 18 months to be implemented, which will be more than enough time to have dozens of high quality, low cost solutions to allow ISPs to do an effective job throttling volume. See my spam/law page for more info. ¶4:56 PM; digg