Fwd: E-MAIL SURCHARGE

[Colin McGregor]

--- pking123-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org wrote:

> William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 02:30:21AM -0400, Stewart
> Sinclair wrote: >
> > Does anyone know anything about this?
> > 
> > I seen it long ago, and it's an old hoax.  
> > 
> > However, charging for outgoing email (not
> incoming) will solve spam
> > problem, once and for all.
> 
> Most spam is foreign. I think all that will happen
> is that Canadian 
> spammers will start moving to foreign servers. It
> would only work if 
> all email services were federally-owned by every
> respective 
> government worldwide. Not that likely, IMO.

Further it would kill off a LOT of mailing lists.
Within GTALUG there are multiple mailing list, tlug,
tlug-announce, etc., and depending on the mailing list
you can be talking some 800 e-mail addresses. So, 800
e-mails at 5 cents each we would be talking $40 for
each e-mail sent out, not a cost GTALUG could take on
a regular basis.

Colin McGregor

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