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Comment by drpancake

Require a small fee to send an email, e.g. $0.01. Small enough not to matter for legitimate users, large enough to make spam unprofitable.

Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency would be ideal for facilitating micro-transactions like this. Interestingly, the Hashcash concept was originally designed to fight spam, and later became one of the important ideas that made the invention of Bitcoin possible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

parent drpancake 12 years ago

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