On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 16:33:17 -0600, "Derek Scruggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There is another problem, however - and that is the distribution of >> revenue from e-postage. Do ISP's or users bear the majority of the >> per-message cost? > >I don't see this as an issue. In the snail-mail world, no delievery company >has ever given me any money even though I went out and bought a nice mailbox >to put at the end of my driveway. In addition to the USPS, FedEx & UPS often >use it and they've never offered to share any revenue with me. But that confuses the snail-mail concept of fixed cost (homeowner purchases mailbox for a set price, regardless of how much or little mail they receive, since the variable cost if borne by the sender) with the e-mail concept of variable cost (increasing overhead and ISP fees borne by *both* the user and the ISP themselves) The fundamental question remains - if a commercial e-mail sender pays postage, to whom do they pay it? If they pay my ISP, they have not adequately compensated me for my time. If they pay me, they have not adequately compensated my ISP for the consumption of their overhead. The concept of adequate protection is at work here, since the sending of e-mail contributes to the depreciation of overhead assets and the increase of overhead costs for both user and ISP. Ted _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
