Editing Anti-spam techniques (section)

===Cost-based systems===
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Since spamming is facilitated by the fact that large volumes of email are very inexpensive to send, one proposed set of solutions would require that senders pay some cost in order to send email, making it prohibitively expensive for spammers. Anti-spam activist  [[Daniel Balsam]] attempts to make spamming less profitable by bringing lawsuits against spammers.<ref name="ap">Paul Elias, (December 26, 2010). [https://web.archive.org/web/20101227171358/http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101226/D9KBQRMG0.html Man quits job, makes living suing e-mail spammers], archived from [http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101226/D9KBQRMG0.html the original] on December 27, 2010. [[Associated Press]]</ref>