No one hates spam more than George Scott, Executive Director and one of the founders of Monad.net, a community-owned ISP in New Hampshire. Monad.net's board is made up of New Hampshire local community leaders, including a Newspaper editor who takes a hard free-speech stand on spam. She hit the wall once she figured out what was going on, and now I'm stuck. I really don't have much of an answer at all. We have an opt-in blocking program that we call the Spaminator.
Users can sign up to have the blocking feature protect their accounts.
We now have about 4,000 IP's in the plan - their mail doesn't get through. The default is not to have Spaminator protection. Smoak loses no sleep about free speech. We're not the government. Today there are a lot of ISPs that don't address the issue , and even go as far as encouraging spam as a revenue stream.