The survey is rather leading -- what about phrasing it as you pay $.01 and everyone else pays you $.01 when they send you email? Also, the results of the other polls show that people are willing to make judgements with little to no information, so I have to join the "surveys don't mean much" bandwagon. I have a hard time believing that the cost of processing spam is around $.01 as even compared with an hour of low wage labor (say $8.00/hr), everyone should be able to process around 800 pieces of spam an hour on average. I could believe that, except that the processing is spread out over a long time period (3-12 months?) with messages intentionally designed to make you think that "gee, it looks like spam but I'd better check." Thus I would guess that the marginal cost of spam is higher. Given then though that the total cost of spam processing over a year is probably low, (I probably spend more time having spam driven conversations like this than dealing with actual spam) I would wager that people are reacting negatively to the idea of paying for email in any fashion as given the market power your existing email provider will have over your established email address, the rates charged could easily surpass the total cost of "spam processing."
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-- John Morrow
At 11:22 AM 3/10/2004 -0500, you wrote:
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