[extropy-chat] Email Postage

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

Email stamps would be a good protection against spam. If 1 email costs
5 cents, 100k emails will cost 5000 and spammers will think twice.
At the same time they should not convert email into something so
expensive that normal users must watch how many emails they send.
A good idea might be something like free email until a certain daily
treshold, much higher than the average number of emails per user per
day. Say, for example, 200 free emails per day and 5 cents per extra
email. This may leave normal users in but cut spammers out.
G.

On 2/5/06, Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> The companies that adopt it, only think their size gives them a
> stranglehold on the Internet.  There are just too many people on
> the "outside" - and likely always will be.
>
> That said, if Yahoo! adopts a minimal approach - that is, the
> only things that paid email guarantees are that the message will
> be delivered, and will be delivered to the inbox instead of the
> spam folder, that might be a viable way to test the service
> without losing customers.  Rejecting, altering, or in any way
> failing to deliver unpaid email (to the standards of today,
> which do allow for spam filtering) just because it's unpaid is
> likely to run into trouble...but then, AOL has been hemorraging
> customers for years, and survives in large part by replacing
> them with new people who have never used the Internet before.
>
> --- "Keith M. Elis" <zarathustra_winced at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > This topic is one that many people have mixed feelings about.
> > Companies
> > appear to be seriously weighing the idea of charging for email
> > delivery
> > in certain cases. Frankly some form of email postage is probably a
> > good
> > idea for the long-term viability of the medium.
> >
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/05AOL.html?ex=1296795600&en=6efa03d1cbfacf9e&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss
> >
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