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Email Spam Solution > Making it pay
1. Not just consumers
Obviously businesses will want access to this wonderful new email system. Make them pay - they are businesses, they can afford it, and if they can't, they are small enough for an individual account. Charge them more than individuals. Reduce or remove the credits for received emails.
Newsletter providers will be counted as businesses.
2. Micro-payments
The system is already needing to charge 5 cents fees. It could end up having 100 million users. This is an ideal situation to integrate micro-payments, specifically for access to content. Email newsletters can charge per issue, a few cents at a time. They can still include advertisements within the newsletter. If people aren't willing to pay a few pennies for your newsletter, it can't be terribly useful or interesting.
3. Expect some folk to spend a lot
Look at mobile phones, and how much people spend. Look at SMS - people spend more than this proposal just to send a very small, purely text message...
We are used to paying, and when confronted with the decision to pay 5 cents to send an email, 99% of people wouldn't even think about it.
Contents
1. The system
2. How to get everyone to use it
3. How to make it profitable
4. How to stop spammers from accessing the
system
5. Who can make it happen?