David F. Skoll wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Tom Thomson wrote:
Anyway, it's irrelevant. What you generally want to identify is the sending account, so that the ISP can kill it off when he gets complaints.
Some ISPs are already doing this to reasonably good effect. Cleanup fees are even better.An even simpler solution is for ISP's to prevent free accounts from sending e-mail at all. You can browse the Web all you want, but until you pay up and give a credit card number -- no e-mail. Or slightly less draconian, force free accounts to send e-mail through the ISP's server and limit it to 10 emails/day.