I don't think this is necessarily true. The proposal was that the cost be
negligible for "normal" emails and it's only when one tries to send
hundreds of thousands out that it becomes "real money". It would not
affect the average person at all.
As for the claim that people will have the right to send it - that's
absolutely true. And we will still need to have mechanisms in place to
detect unsolicited mail. A whitelist with challenge/response is very
effective for this.
D
If we increase the cost of sending email, we'll find that many of the best
things about email - e.g. that it makes it easy for us to keep in touch with
people with whom we would not otherwise do so - will be gone. And we'll still
be getting spam, it will just be 'slicker', and trying to sell us different
products. And the folks who are sending it will claim that they have a right
to do so.
Keith
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