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Re: [Asrg] Re: Answering a lot of questions about e-postage in a few sentences

2004-04-25 13:41:22
At any rate, no system I can think of outside of e-mail is purely
geared towards resolving some sort of receiver pays other than some
much-maligned, relatively recent cell-phone systems and even on those
there's much activity to either block or change the charging for
marketing calls.

But telephone in general, postal, sender pays.

This is because no other system outside of e-mail has the same
underlying cost structure that e-mail does.  The phone system perhaps
comes cloest - and, surprise surprise, that's the system where the
analogue of spam is most hated and most acted against.

This fiction seems to only exist on this list.

It's not a fiction.  It's a fundamental difference between e-mail and
all those analogies people seem to like so much, a difference that is
in large part why the analogies are flawed.

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