On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 04:22:27PM +0200, jpinkerton wrote:
I think Alex has missed the point because we have been discussing this for
quite a few days now, and I believe we all agree that cost is not welcome,
but there are some who want accreditation and that costs money - even if it
is absolutely *no* guarantee that the mail won't be spam.
Cost is not welcome. I agree.
What is so hard about this:
me> Do not forget that the "normal, trustworthy small companies" need to
me> "cough up the dough" once in every <foo> years whereas spammers will
me> have to pay every <bar> days.
In other words: Spammers do not welcome costs as well and they will have
far more cost than us.
If Alex is claiming to not belong to the capitalistic society - he must be
living on Mars, because there's no-where on Earth that isn't involved in it
in some way or other ;-) No offence meant Alex, but the reality is that
the internet is based on a capitalistic society, it's just that it's be
nice to keep that aspect of it to an absolute minimum.
I think I understand this perfectly well, I was making this point myself.
What you fail to understand is that NOTHING is free. Even "free" services
such as gossip need to be built, maintained and so on. The cost will be
shared on a voluntary basis but it still costs real money.
cheers,
Alex