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Re: [Asrg] Re: Stamping

2003-03-21 10:37:12
I too was an ISP in the very early days. I remember paying $10,000/year just to have routing done between the various private networks. It really isn't a difficult concept to understand - it is a tax you collect and is collected from you. Europeans have had a VAT for years. It could work just like a VAT.

As to just buying bandwidth, well we all know that isn't quite true. It does have to go through a router some where. Intercepting the SMTP traffic would be trivial.

Chuck Wegrzyn

Chuq Von Rospach wrote:


On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 08:36  AM, C Wegrzyn wrote:

It seems to me the whole idea behind stopping spam would be for ISPs to levy a "use tax" on email being sent.


What about people (like me) who act as their own ISPs? I buy network from my upstream server. I run my own DNS. I run my own SMTP. I run my own web and other services.

I have to charge myself to send email now? that's gonna stop the spammers...






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