Patent ID: 7181764

Claim:
A method for managing a subscription over a network, comprising: receiving a request for a sender subscription to a trusted email database from a client address; determining whether the client address is initially trustable, and if the client address is initially trustable, subscribing the client address to the trusted email database, and enabling the client address to send a predetermined number of messages within a predetermined time frame; if it is indeterminate whether the client address is initially trustable, negotiating a fee payment prior to subscribing the client address to the trusted email database and enabling the client to send the predetermined number of messages within the predetermined time frame; monitoring information associated with the client address as reported by other address; determining a universal trust rating for the client address based, in part, on the monitored information, wherein the universal trust rating is a property of the client address, and not a property of the destination message address; and if the Universal trust rating indicates that the client message is untrustable, disabling the client sender subscription from the trusted email database.