Re: [Asrg] Re: Answering a lot of questions about e-postage in afew sentences

[der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>]

> At any rate, no system I can think of outside of e-mail is purely
> geared towards resolving some sort of receiver pays other than some
> much-maligned, relatively recent cell-phone systems and even on those
> there's much activity to either block or change the charging for
> marketing calls.

> But telephone in general, postal, sender pays.

This is because no other system outside of e-mail has the same
underlying cost structure that e-mail does.  The phone system perhaps
comes cloest - and, surprise surprise, that's the system where the
analogue of spam is most hated and most acted against.

> This fiction seems to only exist on this list.

It's not a fiction.  It's a fundamental difference between e-mail and
all those analogies people seem to like so much, a difference that is
in large part why the analogies are flawed.

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