Yahoo! Proposes 1¢ Stamp on Email

Forgive me if this turns more into a rant than objective opinion, but I find the idea of this even making past a fleeting thought, or maybe a board meeting simply silly. The fact that Yahoo!, or someone at Yahoo! came up with this idea, well they didn't actually come up with it, Bill Gates proposed the same thing back in '04 and I do believe he was laughed off of the internets. Where was I? Oh yeah, someone came up with this idea, and it actually made it as far as a press release just seems silly to me.
Yahoo! suggests email users purchase a pack of 500 virtual stamps for $5.00 US, that's a penny a piece to send email. The idea is if you impose charges to email, it will become an unprofitable deterrent to spammers, and they'll stop, or at least drastically slow down. Yeah, ok. The first major flaw in this idea is that the fee is optional. They thought ahead enough to relaize that email in its inception has always been designed to be free, and the majority of the world would not get on board with this, and thereby wouldn't simply limit all of their email traffic to people that had purchased a virtual stamp, much less pay for them in their own outgoing mail. Fail.
The second major hole that I see is that fact that the entire spam and virus world nowadays is money driven. I'm not sure if Yahoo! reads the news, but unfortunately criminals such as the one that was arrested recently charged with stealing 130 million unique credit card numbers from TJX and Heartland Payment Systems in what has become the largest PI breach in history, but I believe that the spammers and other cybercriminals won't have a hard time coming up with money to pay a 1 cent postage, even if this were to ever happen. Which it won't. Please feel free to add your free opinions while you still can. ;)