The only way I
see this happening is if they (AOL, MSN, ECT) start a
private email network. I can see it
now join our email network and receive no spam $9 a month or something. The catch is that you want be able to
send mail out of network i.e.. Prodigy and aol of the past. I had an Idea a while ago about
email - email should just be a notice that there is mail on a so called server
for you. You click it and it open on there server. I don't think spasm could handle
1,000,000 hits for each letter it send out. Since Im in no position to devise or
introduce ideas I'll leave it to the big boys to figure the problem out.
Hopefully it wont cost me more money in the end. Hey
does anyone remember Sierra Online they used to charge you per IM like $6 a
month for unlimited or 10cents per. Anyway I hope it doesn't go back to that.
Matthew Ozor
www.ozor.net
-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org] On
Behalf Of George Gallen
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004
3:01 PM
To: 'plug@lists.phillylinux.org'
Subject: 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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