[TriLUG] postfix spam blocking

[Alexey Toptygin]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Kevin Hunter wrote:

> At 3:52pm -0500 Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Matt  wrote:
>> 2 - pushing the cost onto the sender is one of the concepts
>> considered to combat spam.  The intent was to make it undesirable to
>> send bulk unsolicited email and the mechanism was to place a tax on
>> each sent email such that a normal person or business would never see
>> a charge or one that was more than a small token, while a spammer
>> would get a massive one.
>
> Ah, you're thinking "legitimate" spam.  And you have me there.  If there is a 
> technical way for legitimate companies to count this and fairly pay for this 
> according to the law then great.

Goodmail tried to do it for years. Went out of business.

 			Alexey