Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] The eminent victory of spam

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 2/6/06, Huggard, Arthur Charles (UMC-Student) <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> "AOL and Yahoo are going to start charging anywhere from 1/4¢ to 1¢ to
> guarantee that messages will wind up in the inboxes of the recipients. Free
> e-mail will still be accepted, but there will be no guarantee that it will
> find its way through the spam filters and into users' inboxes. In the case
> of AOL, free e-mail is also likely to be delivered without included images
> and URLs." -
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060205-6116.html

I do not have time to answer this in full right now, but I'm actually
*jumping with joy* at the prospect of this: paid guaranteed delivery
of email.  It provides a concrete cost to the act of spending
unsolicited email, and a high enough cost to dissuade a lot of it from
ever being sent.  I don't know the specifics of this plan, so it might
well suck, but the big problem with spam is that there is essentially
zero cost to the sender.  You might get a lot of physical junk mail,
but if sending mail were free, you'd get it by the pound.

Gotta run.

jking

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