...Now, lets say hypothetically speaking that all ISPs would charge their
customers extra for lets say more than 1000 emails/day.
The problem is that the number will shrink, and shrink, and shrink, until you
are charged for EVERY E-mail.
And, just as the oligopoly reduces the number of independent small local ISPs
and things are inexorably consolidating in the hands of folks like Comcast and
SBC and Verizon et al, you're going to have a bunch of big companies which
divvy
up the market between them and without anything like genuine competition.
We're
seeing the resulting abuse TODAY with unjustified rate hikes based on flimsy
arguments... where they're jacking up prices just because THEY CAN. :-(((
Would it achieve the same effect as e-postage? Why isn't this model working
today?
A whole lot of reasons. But a biggie is:
1) It's far too easy to steal someone else's bandwidth. If Aunt Gertrude's
machine gets infected by a zombie spambot, the spammer can use her machine (and
her postage) to pump out MILLIONS of E-mail messages.
2) Even if Aunt Gertrude's machine is rate-limited to 1000 E-mails a day (or a
hundred!) the spammer can STILL infect that many more machines, and still
bankrupt all of their available individual postage account balances. :-(
3) And somebody ($$$$$) is going to have to sort out the resulting mess. The
spammers won't be paying THAT bill, either.
Gordon Peterson http://personal.terabites.com/
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