I think that there are two good ways to solve the problem of spam.

First, Google already scans your gmail and markets to you based on words used. Why can't gmail work with other major email providers to scan all incoming emails and compare them against each other. Now granted this would take a lot of computing power, but if Google can already do it with marketing, why not filtering spam? If an email sent to me matches an email sent to at least 50 other people perfectly, then it is probably spam and it should be killed. If we matched this up against a list of trusted websites (e.g. evite... where you might get a legitimate piece of mass mail inviting you to an event) maybe we can eliminate a lot of the spam that goes around.

Second, why not create a governmental spam investigation unit which would take forwarded spam emails, compare them against each other, and then if there were a certain number of them the government would go track down the sender and fine them / jail them / etc. This would at least provide some punishment for those responsible for spam.

Thanks for listening.

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