Charging for email is the only way to stop spam, according to a new report by Forrester Research.
Forrester predicted in January this year that spam filtering, either by ISPs or at a recipient's address, would in fact increase the volume of spam. All the indications are - and there have been several surveys published this week that bear this out - that this is the case, as spammers have responded to filtering by simply increasing the total volume of spam.
'Even one quarter of $.0.01 per message would crush spammers' business model,' the report claims. 'A charge of $2.50 per thousand messages would add $2,500 to the cost of a one-million-message campaign, seriously undermining spam's economics....'
pcpro.co.uk
Forrester predicted in January this year that spam filtering, either by ISPs or at a recipient's address, would in fact increase the volume of spam. All the indications are - and there have been several surveys published this week that bear this out - that this is the case, as spammers have responded to filtering by simply increasing the total volume of spam.
'Even one quarter of $.0.01 per message would crush spammers' business model,' the report claims. 'A charge of $2.50 per thousand messages would add $2,500 to the cost of a one-million-message campaign, seriously undermining spam's economics....'
pcpro.co.uk
