[Sgt_Schultze]

MAILWASHER is a great freebie and it allows you to bounce mail so the sender receives a DEAMON response indicating your actual email address is bogus.

[Gopher Broke]

How about this for a law: We will not eliminate spam...but we will charge for it....set up a computer system to allow spammers to send as much as they like for 10 cents per message, still FAR CHEAPER than snail mail.

The spammers must post funds, in advance, to a database and each email they send must have a click link to "claim" and deposit the 10cents to the addressee, if they do not want the Spam message.

Once your account reaches $x, you can get the money transferred to your checking account, or a charity of your choice.

This might only work in the US...

Any thoughts?

[Ron H.]

I agree, MailWasher is a great program. However, like other anti-Spam programs it can't help with the spoofed return mail address. IMO, just making that either illegal or unprofitable to do would go a long ways towards reducing spam.

Many times MailWasher encounters a piece of junk mail with a spoofed (phony) return address and it can't notify the spammer so the spammer just keeps spamming away.