If you're going to take the stance that it is the consumer's
responsibility not to be bombarded with unwanted, unsolicited and
objectionable commercial email/spam, then *my* take on it would be to
provide added value at the ISP level. AOL has done this and has won,
right? For an extra buck a month (or at the same rate, in a competitive
market), an account that's all set up with Procmail. I would advertise it
as such. "We filter spam!" could be a good advertising concept. Kind of
like caller ID service by the phone companies. So those who wanna pay for
it, will have an account that's relatively free of spam.
Keep in mind most users have no idea how to deal with spam. Some may think
it's irritating, but may tolerate it because they think it's just like the
junk mail flyers they get at home, not realizing the philosophical
objections many of us have to junk email.
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