Comments on: Can Economics Fix Email?

By: eduardo

eduardo — Sat, 19 May 2007 20:51:38 +0000

please help me to verify myspace

By: David Wynn

David Wynn — Wed, 16 May 2007 23:01:53 +0000

Personally, I think options are growing better for fighting spam all the time on an individual level, so there’s no need for government intervention or significant structural changes. Gmail seems to do pretty well with regards to spam, and Thunderbird can pick most of the bad ones out as well. It may not solve the problem of network overload, but I think it solves the consumer problem of too much junk in the inbox quite nicely.

By: Chris Pangburn (SmallBizBlog)

Chris Pangburn (SmallBizBlog) — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:55:42 +0000

I agree that scarcity would only be a good thing in the prevention of information overload. With a small initial investment and negligible marginal cost of sending an email, this does nothing to help prevent abuse of the system. Perhaps more regulation or a spam filter at a national level (this is not an advocation of Communism!) would help decrease spam.