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RE: [PLUG] [OT] Postage on EMail?
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Title: RE: [PLUG] [OT] Postage on EMail?
I'd like to know who is going to keep track of the stamps?
And how will this stop a spammer from using an ISP outside
the country that doesn't impose email sending fees?
Since 99% of my spam seems to come from China, fees on sending
based in the US/EU won't stop much of it.
All it will stop are the real companies sending spam, and not
bogus companies sending spam for another company.
This will bring about a new definition of spam. it will need to
be catagorized into 1. bogus return address/IP & 2. matching IP/return
The stamps will only hurt those sending type 2's, but at the same
time will most likely be written off as business expense.
Boy, Imagine the intrest that would accumulate off the holder of all
those e-stamps??? Who gets the interest?
I have a feeling if $$ starts becoming involved in the sending of emails
you will start seeing some ISP charging for forwarding mail (take a slice
fo the fee charged)....starting to look like the way long distance phone
calls were billed, where each holder of a line used charged a fee.
Now, if that's the case, can you start sueing because your email didn't
take the most direct route (causing the least amount of fees?), and what
happens when the total of the fees to send the email winds up to be more
the cost of an email, who forfeits their fee?
too many questions, too much potential for coruption..maybe this should be
handled by the government?? They seem like honest accountable people!!
George
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul [mailto:gyoza@comcast.net]
>Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 2:42 PM
>To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>Subject: Re: [PLUG] [OT] Postage on EMail?
>
>
>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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