Paying for e-mail 'postage stamps'

I'm all for it - but then again I'm not a company or mass emailer :)
 
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bwana v.8 said:
I'm all for it - but then again I'm not a company or mass emailer :)
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i would be for it if it was a once off fee somehow per email addy, not per messsage. it will destroy the point of why email is what it is
 
This might appeal to some companies to reduce spam and hence traffic ... but why pay for something that you can basically get for free?
I personally don't c this working ... but who knows with these crazy americans :D
 
albert123 said:
i would be for it if it was a once off fee somehow per email addy, not per messsage. it will destroy the point of why email is what it is
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Your email will still get delivered just the same as it does now. Right now anything you send probably goes through spam filters on their side so all this fee does is let paying customers bypass these filters. Its like sending something courier rather than airmail - both get there.
lucifir said:
This might appeal to some companies to reduce spam and hence traffic ... but why pay for something that you can basically get for free?
I personally don't c this working ... but who knows with these crazy americans :D
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AOL and Yahoo(?) are just saying that if you're a legit mass emailer (ie not a spammer) you can buy preferential treatment when you send to users in their network.

EDIT - Imagine how much less spam there would be if you had to pay 1 cent to send an email? 1 rand to send 100 emails doesnt sound like a lot but to a spammer who sends out millions of emails per day it would cost a fortune. ISPs would probably even bundle a few thousand free emails per month into your account and you wouldnt even notice the difference.
 
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This is prolly a good thing but it means that instead of spam sent to the spam box on my yahoo accounts it'll be sent directly into my inbox
 
I heard a while ago of the similar system the US gov suggested where you pay a fee (deposit) to send the email, but if the receiver accepts it you get a refund. If he doesn't you lose it. That seemed like a better idea 'cause it will only punish the spammers.
 
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RolandD said:
I heard a while ago of the similar system the US gov suggested where you pay a fee (deposit) to send the email, but if the receiver accepts it you get a refund. If he doesn't you lose it. That seemed like a better idea 'cause it will only punish the spammers.
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that seems a bit better. but rather just get proper spam blockers and deal really hard with the spam senders that get caught.

prevention is better than cure
 
neio said:
This is prolly a good thing but it means that instead of spam sent to the spam box on my yahoo accounts it'll be sent directly into my inbox
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The stuff has to have been requested by you or they'll be classified as spam and the sender blocked completely from the network.

The original NYTimes article stated that 60 percent of the email sent worldwide on a daily basis was spam. :eek: Thats 16 billion pieces of unsolicited email sent each day http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/05AOL.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
 
RolandD said:
I heard a while ago of the similar system the US gov suggested where you pay a fee (deposit) to send the email, but if the receiver accepts it you get a refund. If he doesn't you lose it. That seemed like a better idea 'cause it will only punish the spammers.
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this will also stop people from forwarding chain-letters!

this system has my vote
 
The system definitely doesn't have my vote. We pay for all these things already - this is just more method to monetise every single potential revenue stream... all these latest pay plans are going to lead to the end of the internet (as we know it and as discussed elsewhere.) :(
 
It won't stop anything. It is just another mechanism above the current mechanisms with delay as the main aim for non "registered" mail.

To stop spam, I believe in another mechanism. A free one. It is a system that forces mail servers to add 2 or three seconds on every single delivery. If you send mail to 30 friends it would take 1 minute for all of them to be handled.

One million emails would take a spammer over 500 hours! Thus, if you don't register with you country's national postal services as a legitimate bulk emailer, you won't be able to bug many people in one go.

If somebody complains you have been spamming them, you get negative marks up to a certain point when your bulk email privelages are revoked and you have to re-apply.
 
Sounds good antowan - only problem - it doesn't make any money - so no good. (no potential for pillage, not a good plan.) :(
 
kilo39 said:
The system definitely doesn't have my vote. We pay for all these things already - this is just more method to monetise every single potential revenue stream... all these latest pay plans are going to lead to the end of the internet (as we know it and as discussed elsewhere.) :(
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There is no more 'internet as we know it' - its just another link in the chain.
 
Mark my words......THE DAYS OF FREE E-MAILS ARE LIMITED. If this is allowed to stick its head in the door, where does it end? Yes I hear the arguement that it will stop spammers, blahdeblahdeblah. That is just an excuse to make money. Its a bit like selling air.

I would rather put up with spam than have to pay even a quarter a cent for an email. It starts as a quarter cent, then one cent, then one Rand. And before you know it, an email costs as much as a post office-sent letter.
 
So instead of e-mail you'll have a blog and communicate that way
 
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