Re: [Asrg] E-postage

[Seth Breidbart <sethb at panix.com>]

>> ...Now, lets say hypothetically speaking that all ISPs would charge their 
>> customers extra for lets say more than 1000 emails/day. 
>
> The problem is that the number will shrink, and shrink, and shrink, until you 
> are charged for EVERY E-mail.

At which point I'll declare myself an ISP and send directly.

Actually, that won't happen, because the ISP market is a lot more
competitive than the phone market.

> And, just as the oligopoly reduces the number of independent small
> local ISPs and things are inexorably consolidating in the hands of
> folks like Comcast and SBC and Verizon et al, you're going to have a
> bunch of big companies which divvy up the market between them and
> without anything like genuine competition.

And for a $250/month colo machine (or likely a lot cheaper), I'll
become the email provider of choice for a few thousand people at $1
each, making a huge profit for me, and cutting their email charges
down to $1/month.

>  We're seeing the resulting abuse TODAY with unjustified rate hikes
> based on flimsy arguments... where they're jacking up prices just
> because THEY CAN.  :-(((

In how competitive a market?

Seth

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