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Re: [Asrg] Proposal: Separate ISP(s) for "guaranteed delivery" of email

2003-07-02 15:08:32
At 4:57 PM -0400 7/2/03, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:57:22PM -0400, Kee Hinckley wrote
 At 2:20 AM -0400 6/30/03, Walter Dnes wrote:
 >model.  Too expensive for everyday use for every piece of mail, but the
 >right solution when the sender is willing to pay a bit of money to
 >ensure that a file gets delivered.

 But in the case of you sending a purchase question to a five
 companies, it's the *company* that cares most about getting the
 message delivered.  You don't care much if one doesn't make it.  They
 do.

  How much do they care; 75 cents' worth ?  It's their decision, just
like with snail-mail versus courirer.

No. That's a sender decision. I'm talking about a receiver decision. And the problem is that if the receiver starts paying for receipt of messages (e.g. to their sales line) then they are open to a different kind of for-profit spam.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/          Anti-Spam Service for your POP Account
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/   Writings on Technology and Society

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

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