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Re: [Asrg] The fundamental misconception about paying for mail

2008-11-29 18:40:42
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 04:56, Alessandro Vesely <vesely(_at_)tana(_dot_)it> 
wrote:

mathew wrote:

[...] There's no technical reason why I should not be able tosimply
whitelist traffic from this list to be delivered for free.


Is that because a list subscriber (you, I presume) happens to be the
postmaster at the receiving site?


No, it's because even web mail systems these days have filtering. Gmail
does, for example. That's what I use.


If not, do you mean all users have both the permissions _and_ the patience
to whitelist lists that they subscribe to?


If users don't have the patience to set up their mail systems to receive
non-commercial mailing list traffic without charge to the sender, then they
won't receive the e-mail, will they?


I'm asking because I see no means for automated registration of opt-ins. Am
I missing something?


Huh? You can handle automated registration of opt-ins exactly the same.
Nothing about this mailing list or the software that runs it would need to
change if we had attention bonds.


mathew
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