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In my more paranoid moments I think that "they" (you know, the grey suited
old white guys shown in the X-Files) are delighted with spam, even
encouraging it, and are letting it go until everyone is so sick and tired of
it clogging their systems that ordinary folks will do anything to be rid of
it... enter Big Brother, protection for children, more control, and we are
now Safe and "they" get to start raking in the money ordinary folks now pay
for something that used to be free.
Elena
-- --Original Message-- --
From: markdesmarais [mailto:markdesmarais@(protected)]
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:22 PM
To: Carrara@(protected)
Subject: [Carrara] Re: OT-Opinions?
> > but how would you like to
> >have to pay a postage fee for emails?
>
> Don't think that the internet needs to be regulated. Any time
> government tries to regulate anything, it generally gets worse. As
> far as the postage fee is concerned, an email message is, by
> definition, not using the US mail service, and should have
absolutely
> nothing to do with them, or any fee.
>
> Let any politician smell money, and you will be paying a fee for
> breathing...
>
> Harvey
>
>
> >Brian
I agree about regulation. . . however, the only context I've seen
proposals for paying for email are around SPAM control, not
regulation or revenues.
The idea is that if it costs even a penny or so to send an email, it
would make spamming unprofitable. Would you pay $5 a month to not get
spam? Maybe a different answer. I'm not saying it's RIGHT to have to
pay to get rid of spam, just that it may be an effective remedy.
Since a lot of the spammers have moved offshore, we can't easily go
after them with US law.. . .
Markd
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