14 DAY TRIAL // Spam's not going to be stopped, not this year, and I don't think the next either. It's not that it can't be stopped. There are plenty of coercive measures e-mail clients can deploy in order to kill spam, but it would make normal users' life a lot more complicated. For them, killing spam isn't worth it, not even with unwanted messages accounting for over 83% of all e-mail messages on the web.
A couple of years ago, Bill Gates said that spam will be taken down. Instead, it escalated. It's somewhat funny how some of these tech-gurus make some predictions and then, the exact opposite happens. When computers were first invented nobody thought that people would want these machines in their homes. They were just 'a bit' wrong, back then, don't you think?
In any case, the thing with spam isn't that one or two users get unwanted messages, that wouldn't be a problem. It's the fact that millions of users get them. So, how many e-mails do you send? I, for one, rarely send more than 5 a week. There are some weeks I don't even send one e-mail. Some people thought about stopping spam by making senders pay per sent e-mail, and if the message gets to its target and is not deemed as spam, then the sender gets his money back. And you don't need a big sum. Just a few pennies - this sure doesn't make a difference to me, but it would make for spammers that send millions and millions of messages daily.
That seems like a nice measure, but it's bound to complicate things and make e-mailing impossible for some people, not to say that if not properly secured, this method would lead to a lot of frauds, so you trade one bad thing for the other.
If you want to know more about this, please click on this link and read an article by security expert Larry Seltzer.