>
> I disagree: while they may try to tax, for example, purchases made over
> the web, e-mail surcharges would be
>
> a) an amazingly spectacular way to kill one's political career, and
Agreed.
> b) impossible to enforce without amazing intrusion of privacy.
Yes, but just keep this in the back of your mind. We may all use differnet
ISPs, but who owns the actual lines that the ISPs use? Bell Atlantic (for
the east coast at least..now Verizon I think). Don't get me wrong, I'm not
some conspricy theorist here...but the majority of the actual copper/fiber
used is owned by a very small number of companies. That concerns me, for
several reasons.
> And even if they decided to intrude on privacy, it would be... be...
> well, for those of you who truly understand POP and HTTP and SMTP and
> TCP/IP and UUCP and so on, you can only imagine how difficult it would be
> to set up the e-mail equivilent of, say, a water meter. And how much joy
> the Open Source community would take in subverting same. It just ain't
> gonna happen.
True, would be difficult w/o seriously changing the way the internet
works.
--rdp
> $.02
>
> -Ken
>
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