Re: [PLUG] [OT] Postage on EMail?

[Paul <gyoza@comcast.net>]

Michael D. Bevilacqua wrote:

> Oh come on Gates...
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/05/spam.charge.ap/index.html
>
>  
If anyone can pull this off it is Micro$oft.  (I can't emphasize the *$* 
enough.)  Aren't they already trying to charge for e-mail by offering an 
improved Hotmail account for a fee?

This is just looney toons.

"NEW YORK (AP) -- If the U.S. Postal Service delivered mail for free, 
our mailboxes would surely runneth over with more credit-card offers, 
sweepstakes entries, and supermarket fliers. That's why we get so much 
junk e-mail: It's essentially free to send. So Microsoft Corp. chairman 
Bill Gates, among others, is now suggesting that we start buying 
"stamps" for e-mail."

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