At 6:04 PM -0500 1/29/04, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
-- economic mechanisms (postage, attention bonds)
One of the reason why the Internet works so well as a communications
medium, is because it is cheaper than other mediums. Do we really
want to introduce artificial costs into the system?
<flip-remark>
Judging by the amount of spam I get each day, some artificial costs
may not be such a bad thing.
</flip-remark>
We don't see the cost of transporting email, but it surely exists.
However, as we're just brainstorming here, let's not start editing
the list of topics just yet.
--
john noerenberg
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