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RE: [PLUG] [OT] Postage on EMail?
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How about this one:
In most Forums there are private messages. Why not just write an "email"
program that can send and receive email to the forums. You can't leave
messages unless you sign up so that would combat a lot of problems.
-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of
jazzman@exdomain.org
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 10:11 AM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] [OT] Postage on EMail?
> What are: "(copper, fibre, ether for wireless, IP by carrier pigeon
> even!)." if not REAL PHYSICAL methods of delivering the mail?
>
> There are costs associated with electronic mail -- they just happen to
> be dramatically less because of "economies of scale" (and a host of
> other, similar factors).
>
> The underlying issue is resource control and allocation.
Granted. I misstated. The point of my emails wasn't that, it was more
along the lines of "if they make you pay for it, why not just write a
new
utility that does the same thing without the fee". We can't "rewrite"
the
post office because we'd need new delivery (wo)men and we can't reuse
the
ones we have. We CAN, however, reuse the copper wires we have now for
"new" protocols. They tax email, fine. They don't tax IMs or IRC
messages,
or any other protocols you may be using. No need to reinvent the wheel,
just redesign it.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Marc
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