Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
[snip Barry's words and YS's policy comment]
The basic thought behind e-postage is that resources that are being used
should be charged for. Today we already have one such system which is
working sucessfully every day - the Internet. ISPs charge each other for
uplink and downlink bandwidth and resources used. Now, lets say
hypothetically speaking that all ISPs would charge their customers extra
for lets say more than 1000 emails/day. Would it achieve the same effect
as e-postage? Why isn't this model working today?
Hypothetically, it works in the sense that each step upstream (in
connectivity, not mail transmission) is charging those immediately
downstream for messages transmitted. This means that even if spammers
establish their own ISP, they will be charged by their uplink provider.
However, this doesn't rectify the essential flaw that receivers bear the
cost burden of email, not senders. Even if this raises the cost to send
imposed on the sender, it in no way reduces the cost to the receiver.
Philip Miller
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