[Hidden-tech] An Idea about Email

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:30:50 -0400 "Edbride-PR" <Ed at edbride-pr.com> wrote:

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> At some point, perhaps the notion of paying for email will surface again. 
> For those of us who use email for business, a levy of .1cent would be 
> trivial, but for a bulk mailer, it would begin to add up. Heck, I'd gladly 
> pay a penny per mail, let alone one-tenth of a cent, if it would curtail 
> spam.
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> Implementation would be a bit of a challenge, but if China can block web 
> access, can't we figure out how to block bulkmail? I reliaze that there are 

Blocking 'bulkmail' is actually easy.  The problem is that spammers
don't send mail as 'bulkmail'.  Instead they use a large number of
machines (eg a 'botnet') to send large numbers of non-bulk mail messages.

> legitimate bulkmailers (subscriptions), but if there were a will to solve it 
> with money, there'd be a way to do it.
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> Ed
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