An idea to fight spam

 February 28, 2013

Today I would like to give you an idea on how to implement a spam system that can reduce some kind of spam.

The problem

Sometimes a company or a politician, that does not respect the usual privacy policy, continues to send e-mails even if the user already tried to unsubscribe.

My postulates

1. The people who usually send this kind of e-mail are not very familiar with how e-mail work or how the privacy policy works. Obviously there is the case in which they are malicious, but I prefer to think that the biggest part of these people are in the first two cases.
2. These people probably will have issues removing a person from a mailing list, therefore they will tend not doing it, unless they have an advantage.
3. Is really annoying sending an e-mail to 10 contacts and receive 8 mail-delivery-subsystem errors.

My approach

My approach is dividable in two directions that have to be implemented as features from the e-mail provider: