Well, for starters I want to thank you for being brutally honest about
the concerns regarding e-postage because I think what you say is
behind every other criticism. That said...
On April 28, 2004 at 14:07 asrg(_at_)rebel(_dot_)com(_dot_)au (Chris) wrote:
An e-postage system would need to account for the every day person. why
should they be charged for sending what is currently free?
Because the current totally free system isn't working very well as
evidenced by our convening here (that is, spam!)
Unlimited free resources tend to get abused if there's some way to
profit from that use. And that's about where we are right now.
So if we take that into consideration what is the limit on the number of
emails for free or charged 10,20 per day ?
One would imagine it'd become a marketing issue, just like the monthly
price of a connection and how fast that is, etc.
Who polices that level. what about China who polices it there?
Again, the market.
As to China, this is probably the least of China's problems. Do we
really think we can solve all of China's problems right here or should
even take them into account?
How about the fact that all the e-mail headers and SMTP etc not to
mention the RFCs are in English? Don't you think that poses some
disadvantage to the average Chinese person? How would you like it if
all that were in Chinese?
It's not somewhere we're really set up to go here.
Ok set the level at zero. the average Joe will cop it sweet if it keeps spam
out of their mail box.
Does anyone here think e-mail will survive beyond a fee ?
If the fee is reasonable, like zero for most common, personal usage,
etc, yes.
If so go ahead and introduce a fee. see how long it takes before an
alternative becomes available.
I will start writing one as soon as e-postage looks inevitable!
Yeah well you could also try setting up your own phone and postage
systems and tell us how it works out.
Regards
Chris
P.S. How many of you would subscribe to this list if it was going to cost
$0.20 every time
Who suggested $.20? Who suggested it'd be recipient-pays?
And who pays for the duplicates we all receive?
Who suggested it'd be recipient-pays?
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