Re: [Asrg] The fundamental misconception about paying for mail POSTAGE

[Seth <sethb at panix.com>]

Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> wrote:

> How much do you believe a typical email costs? How many have you sent
> this month. Multiply the two numbers together and report back.
>
> Individual spammers send O(billion) per day. Now, take that cost from
> the first part and multiply instead by a billion.
>
> Whaddya think?

I think spammers will steal resources to continue sending spam at the
expense of other people.

Just like they do now.

> But without pricing all you really have is bickering about what is
> meant by "unsolicited" or "legit" etc.

And with pricing you have to ensure that the "right" people pay it.

And if you could do that, you wouldn't need pricing.

> How can you say this when I have typed in a perfectly reasonable model
> perhaps a dozen times even just in the past several days?

How does your model enforce that spammers pay (and not the owners of
zombied machines)?

> Nothing I have ever said, nor believe, involves recipients deciding
> who to charge or not charge.

So who does get to decide?

Seth
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