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What, you don't want bigger breasts and an over-functioning unit? (hmm... sounds like the drug companies are working you towards screwing yourself)

I registered just to reply to this. :)

There's a simple solution thought up many years ago (by whom, I don't know). The real problem is that currently you and I--the recepient--pay the cost of recieving unsolicited email. I mean, imagine if you paid to get junkmail in your inbox. Or if telemarketers could charge you for calling you. Then we'd have a lot more of that going on.

If people had to pay, say, 1 cent to send an email, that wouldn't break the average emailer's bank. It would, however, make spamming un economical. I mean, spammers work on percentages. By sending emails out to a few million people, they only need a few thousand fools to buy their product. Of course, the total cost of 1 cent per email would probably make that uneconomical (unless they had something really good to sell, in which cause most of us probably wouldn't mind receiving it).

As for the problem of legitimate mass emailers being costed out, you have two approaches. Things like not-for-profit organisations could make deals with ISPs (who would ultimately be the chargers). And solicited emailers could have some sort of charge transference thing, like how you pay postage if you want to recieve a magazine.