To eliminate spam (for non-business or unregistered mass mailers) ICANN could simply create a new suffix of MME (Mass Mail Engine) or something similar. When broadcasting lage batches of mail to the internet the resident SMTP engine would limit the number of mails sent in one block and the number of blocks per hour UNLESS the mail originated in an MME domain. Internal mail would not be affected and blocks of mail under say 25 external addresses would be allowed to pass through, anything else would require a registered (and paid for on a subscription basis) MME domain.
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Very good! I was going to post an idea like this, but found this one already submitted. If I owned a company, I could pay for a subscription and have my bulk email get channeled through this special domain. The subscription would pay for the effort that ensures that I was not sending SPAM, but was sending legitimate business email for my membership/users. If this became a STANDARD throughout the internet for all businesses sending email, then ALL ISP's and email servers (AOL, Earthlink, gmail, Netzero, etc) could automatically accept email coming from this source as 'trusted' and I can guarentee that my important business emails will not get blocked by spam filters or end up in people's junk email folders. Email recipients will not have 'unapproved' spam sent to them and they won't miss important messages sent to them from businesses that they subscribe to and want to receive email from.