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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Russell Horn wrote:
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.
Isn't that the whole idea? They won't pay, so their messages might be
blocked, and the consumer will have been served.
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.
How do you know that? My guess is that you are mistaken.
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.
So these are not unsolicited messages, right? Why would such messages be
blocked? Again, I think you are mistaken about this.
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.
You are speculating. I don't find your argument convincing, but I'm not
saying that you are definitely wrong.
Mike
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