[extropy-chat] Email Postage

[Robert Bradbury]

Leaving aside the scam email spam problem -- it seems true that the
guaranteed delivery option would seem to be a cheap way to bypass the
current expense ($0.39) per letter (or somewhat less for bundled bulk fliers
-- anyone know these costs?) for what one would view as normal commercial
snail mail spam (as opposed to email scam spam).

What local retailers would want is the email addresses organized by zip code
/ address but I have to believe that this is available for lots of people.
Of course this doesn't eliminate the problem of the people who do currently
and might never have email addresses.

But the point being made about a possible increase in commercial mail in
ones INBOX is valid. If AOL & Yahoo do not provide ways of enforcing
filtering of non-whitelisted email it will simply drive people to use email
systems that do allow that.

Anyone know whether the various large userbase email systems allow
auto-forwarding?  (So you could retain an old email address but pass things
along to more sophisticated filtering systems.)

Robert
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