Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>:
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If CNN's recipient list meets the criteria you outline then the bulk
mailing must be delivered for free and without interference.
Who exactly is to provide these bottomless resources is not your
concern, resources must be provided because it'd be FAIR, and we all
know the world is free of starving children, people w/o proper medical
care, and victims of despots, because if it's FAIR then it's field of
dreams, the resources must appear. ....
That and the following is equivalent to UPS whining about the cost of
delivering all of those packages. Instead, the people who solicited
CNN's stuff should be paying you just as they also pay you for the
GBytes of dirty pictures they fetch with FTP and HTTP and the GBytess
of pirated MP3s they fetch with "file sharing" protocols.
Or do you run one of those ISPs that claims to provide something for
nothing?
Charging the recipient is never going to work.