At 05:33 PM 4/28/2004, john(_dot_)oppler(_at_)gm(_dot_)com wrote:
In any case, I do see your point, but was just trying to express my opinion
as to what I think will happen if email is chargeable
It's about as useful as expressing an opinion as to what will happen when
cars run on water.
You have to look at the obstacles to making it happen. Thinking about how
nice it will be "when it happens" is a waste of time if it ain't never
gonna happen.
The first obstacle to making it happen is getting the first 1/2 of the mail
clients/servers on the 'net to sign-on to whatever plan we propose and
implementing the necessary changes first, before there is any hope of
payoff. The second obstacle is getting end users to agree to cut-off the
last 1/2 of the mail clients/servers on the 'net (including aunt Sally with
her old win95 box that can't be upgraded to a newer message system) once
"critical mass" has been achieved, to force all the older clients/servers
to upgrade or die so that the new system has 100% of the message traffic on
the 'net. Both of these are *big* obstacles, and adding ePostage ON TOP OF
THIS makes it considerably harder because we add a complicated payment
scheme on top of a complicated system upgrade.
If it were easy it would have happened already by now. And we would all be
driving cars powered by water.
jc
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