GridEmail: A Case for Economically Regulated Internet-based Interpersonal Communications

TL;DR

This paper proposes Gridemail, an economically regulated email system that uses pricing policies to control spam and help users manage their personal communications effectively.

Contribution

It introduces a novel economic framework for email regulation, integrating pricing policies to reduce spam and improve communication management.

Findings

Potential reduction in spam through economic incentives

Enhanced user control over communication preferences

Framework for regulating email based on supply-demand principles

Abstract

Email has emerged as a dominant form of electronic communication between people. Spam is a major problem for email users, with estimates of up to 56% of email falling into that category. Control of Spam is being attempted with technical and legislative methods. In this paper we look at email and spam from a supply-demand perspective. We propose Gridemail, an email system based on an economy of communicating parties, where participants? motivations are represented as pricing policies and profiles. This system is expected to help people regulate their personal communications to suit their conditions, and help in removing unwanted messages.