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

[Russell Horn <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 10:49 -0600, Mike Miller wrote:

> I think the important thing is not that they are "legitimate" in some 
> sense, but that they are *paying*.  

The trouble is that non-legitimate senders - i.e. spammers - still won't
pay.

It'll still be possible to send small blocks of messages to AOL
accounts, so spam will still be sent using the mass of zombied windows
boxes that are responsible for the vast majority of spam today. 

Companies like Amazon that legitimately need to send email to scores of
folk with AOL and Yahoo accounts will now need to pay per email. That
means increased costs and guess who'll be paying those increast costs of
operation. You guessed it, us the customer.

So now we're paying our ISP, Amazon are paying there's AOL and Yahoo
customers are paying their service providers and we're all about to be
hit with a new charge whenever we want to receive an invoice, a shipping
update or a special offer.

This does nothing to stop spammers - if they were sending huge chunks of
email from just one or two boxes we'd ahve blocked them yesterday. This
is just a tax on legitimate but high volume emailers.

Russell




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