E-mail "stamps"

[Mephisto]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/05/spam.charge.ap/index.html

[iago]

I like the idea about having to solve a puzzle, except that's hardly universal.

[Mephisto]

It will be interesting to see what happens...Most of these alleged "e-mail spam blocking ideas" never go into affect, or actually work.

[Grok]

So a company that does email hosting has to buy 10x more computers to handle the computational power in order to continue providing the equivalent service for their customers?  Sounds like a way to kill the little guys.

[MrRaza]

It will be interesting to see what happens...Most of these alleged "e-mail spam blocking ideas" never go into affect, or actually work.

All virii.


edit: I got three more today too.

[muert0]

I have never gotten a virus mailed to me. What are you doin to get that many?

[Rock]

I'm a lil disgusted at this new idea of charging for stamps. You can probably predict that if it starts at 1 penny soon it will be 5 and so on until it'll cost as much as sending a letter, and when you send 10-20 e-mails every day, it could be very expensive. The whole point of why e-mail got famous is due to the fact that it's quick taking a few seconds to a few minutes as compared to sending a letter which takes a few days and that it was free. Hopefully it will stay that way. Companies are just trying to make additional money off of

[iago]

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All virii.


edit: I got three more today too.

Even the one with no attachment?  That's quite a trick.

I haven't ever recieved viruseseses in email.  And I don't think the stamps will make any difference because the viruseses are sent from other people's computers and it would probably cost the infected people the money.


And if they do add stamps, who do you pay?  I should propose a law that everybody has to pay ME to use email.

[Mephisto]

So a company that does email hosting has to buy 10x more computers to handle the computational power in order to continue providing the equivalent service for their customers?  Sounds like a way to kill the little guys.

It's Microsoft, what can you say.  That's a blunt comment, but more or less, it's true.  Just look at what they're trying to do with palladium/TCPA trying to take over the market and kill off all the small businesses.

[Rock]

The whole idea is retarded.

[Skywing]

So a company that does email hosting has to buy 10x more computers to handle the computational power in order to continue providing the equivalent service for their customers?  Sounds like a way to kill the little guys.

It's Microsoft, what can you say.  That's a blunt comment, but more or less, it's true.  Just look at what they're trying to do with palladium/TCPA trying to take over the market and kill off all the small businesses.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how you can automatically equate TCPA with killing small businesses.

[iago]

So a company that does email hosting has to buy 10x more computers to handle the computational power in order to continue providing the equivalent service for their customers?  Sounds like a way to kill the little guys.

It's Microsoft, what can you say.  That's a blunt comment, but more or less, it's true.  Just look at what they're trying to do with palladium/TCPA trying to take over the market and kill off all the small businesses.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how you can automatically equate TCPA with killing small businesses.

I was wondering that myself..

[MrRaza]

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All virii.


edit: I got three more today too.

Even the one with no attachment?  That's quite a trick.

Smart ass. I guess you failed to realize the pattern, look at the email size.

[muert0]

Still what are you doing to get that much bad traffic?

[Adron]

It's a good idea to make it so that as an anonymous sender you can purchase clearance to put a mail in a recipient's mailbox. The money has to go 90% to the recipient. That way, you whitelist all the people you know, and the ones you don't know have to pay you $0.10 for you to read their mail. You should be able to set the price tag yourself as well. Lawyers might charge $50 for reading an e-mail letter.