At 11:07 AM -0400 7/4/03, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 06:07:20PM -0400, Kee Hinckley wrote
> 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.
Please re-read my original proposal. It includes the sentence...
The general public could join with free "read-only" accounts, with
the option of sending one-off messages for a low fee.
Most customers of UPS/Fedex/Purolator are businesses, and have
accounts with them. But individuals do use couriers occasionally when
the need arises, and pay a one-off fee. The "Business ISP" is to be
a "sender-pays" system. The sender *ALWAYS* pays for messages sent.
The receiver *NEVER* pays for messages recieved.
One of us is misunderstanding. I'm not sure which of us.
My issue as a business is how do I ensure that I reliably get email
from customers who aren't paying to send.
--
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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