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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