On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 13:00:06 -0400, Ted Gavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is the crux of the difference between >e-mail and postal mail. With postal mail, volume does not transfer cost >onto the receipient(s) - only the sender(s). Actually, it's only one of the cruces. Another one is that the sender of postal mail has obtained permission (by paying postage) from the owner of the transport system before using it. It is difficult for "e-postage" to be anything but a misleading misnomer, as the number of distinct owners of the email transport system exceeds one by a considerable margin, and in the general case is indeterminate. To conform to the "postage" model, a system would need to apportion and distribute the proceeds to EVERY entity involved in each email delivery. I have yet to find a chain of reasoning about email that derived from some aspect of postal mail to be other than dangerously false. mdr _______________________________________________ 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]
