One sure way to get rid of spam would be to destroy the business model of the people who pay spammers to send their messages. Those customers rely on a response rate of about 1/2 of 1 percent. If they suddenly started getting a response rate of 20 percent, the vast majority of which were fake orders, then it would quickly become uneconomical for them to sort through the orders to find the good ones. And if there was no money in it for them then they'd stop giving money to the spammers, who'd then have no reason to continue sending out spam.

All we'd need to do to make this work is pass a law that lets us create a company that could legally submit false orders (to prevent charges of fraud). This company would be run by a consortium of major companies who'd find it in their own best interests to volunteer the personnel we need to staff it (just to make sure their own emails aren't accidentally targeted as spam). The staffers would either manually or programatically respond to spam with fake orders. Banks could even provide blocks of credit card numbers to help make the orders pass inspection (all charges against the orders would be refused).

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