] This (imaginary) company has a simple business model. It ] operates a really big password-protected SMTP relay. It ] sends email from anybody to anybody for 1ยข ($0.01) each. ] You open an account with them, drop in say $10 and ] you've bought the rights to send 1,000 emails. Or you ] could set up a monthly billing with your credit card, or ] whatever. You can't send more than 100 emails in a day ] without an (email) exchange to verify that everything's ] all right. ] ] Every email that it sends it signs digitally. Then, you ] set up your email client to send all email that hasn't ] been signed by SMTP4All or one of its competitors (there ] couldn't be more than a couple of hundred) to the junk ] folder. Then you tell your friends to go and sign up with ] one of these guys if they want you to get their mail. Comments? I don't like his answer for mailing lists... Need to rethink that part a little bit... Another Whack at Spam |