I have seen several ways to fight spam. The best way I have seen is charge a dime for each email sent. It costs 10 cents to send an email but that dime goes to the person that is receiving the email. That way, when you get 50 spam messages a day, your account is credited $5. So unless you send more email than you recieve, it will cost you nothing. When you correspond via email with a friend, the first email will cost you a dime, but when they reply, they will be charged a dime also, but they got a credit of 10 cents when they got your original email so they are out nothing. If you get enough spam, you will never have to pay to send an email, and when it costs the spammers $10,000 for every 1 million email they send, it won't take long for them to start cutting down on the number they send.

You can't blame them for using a FREE media for advertising. It is good business sense, but when it starts costing them as much or more than they get in return, the problem will solve itself.

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