Re: [social] E-mail postage debate

[Tork]

"Email Postage", how else can we reduce the bulk emailers? As a user, I'd love to see it! The less than a penny penalty for commercial emailers, would not effect legitimate business one bit, ie the Bank Of Americas, the Fidelity's, etc;  but would kill the real bulk mailer of unbelievable millions of unsolicited email. Personally? I have often wished for a system where I'm presented my incoming mail with the TRUE name of the sender ONLY, to which I would have to check off a yes or no before actually downloading the mail; but the "Email Postage" proposal is less complicated and will perhaps make my "wishful thinking" un-necessary. Tork Rod Engelsman wrote: Remember that debate (argument... fight... whatever) that transpired on discuss some time back about spam? Well, it turns out that AOL and Yahoo are planning to implement a kind of premium email service: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/05AOL.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th