On 12 Apr 2005, at 11:26, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> If people were charge a miniscule sum for email -
> say 0.01 cents per item -
> wouldn't that discourage spammers?
Who is "people" in this context? To send an email requires nothing
more than a TCP connection to an SMTP server; do you suggest that the
ISPs monitor this activity (hello privacy issues!), or that the
receiving server somehow requests payment from the sending system (as
an extension to SMTP?)
Colm
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