Okay, lets say that the "pay-per-email" program costs $0.02 to send a
message. $0.01 goes to the domain registration owner of the receiving
domain, and $0.01 goes to the recipient. That 100,000,000 Spam messages
that my Barracuda blocked would be worth $1M, if I had let them go
through in that scenario, and most/many of my users would have enough
spam credit to not have to pay their invoice for a few years. The
reality: all you have to pay for is bandwidth. There is no logistically
feasible way (that I can see) to put a $0.02 charge on someone/everyone
sending an email.
If paper/printing was free the US Postal service allowed ANYONE to send
ANYTHING for FREE (like the way email works) then a dump truck of junk
mail would be backing up to your door every morning. The junk mail
advertisers paying $0.17 for bulk mail actually subsidizes the $0.39
that we pay for first class email. Without a bulk mail discount, first
class mail would be costing us $2/letter or more.
pd
Rick Smith wrote:
I still get junk mail in my mailbox at the road.
I don't like pay-per-email ideas - they (spammers) will then just pay...
I think the internet really needs to revamp the smtp idea with authenticated
senders. Just having a 25 port open shouldn't be enough....
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of John Scrivner
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 4:13 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: [WISPA] Email a Critical Service? was: A wisp who went a little too
far.......
If email becomes that important then your business becomes worth more money.
I welcome it personally. Obviously we will all need to investigate ways of
creating a more stable email environment than we have now. I think we will
need to consider developing a "pay per email"
platform where messages are billable. This goes both ways. It fixes the spam
issue also. This is our chance to become as important to the American public
as the delivery of first class mail. This is important to discuss and
debate. What is better? Email is not important or is vitally important?
Scriv
fred wrote:
Why in the world, I want to know, are organ availability notifications
going out via email???!!! Seriously. How fun will it be when they
start serving subpeonas and such that way - What I never got that
email??
~fred
On 12/16/06, Mike Ireton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The really interesting part of this:
The attack cut off service for one woman who was waiting for an
e-mail notifying her about the availability of an organ transplant
that she required, according to prosecutors. Because of her
critical status,
her
provider gave her priority status and restored her access within 24
hours.
"Had her medical providers sent her an e-mail notifying her of a
suitable organ donor and had she not responded because of her lost
Internet access, she might have lost her priority for an organ,
thus potentially extending the period she would have to wait for
another donor," wrote prosecutors in the indictment.
People are starting to believe their email is guaranteed and
that their computers can be entrusted with life saving information.
Worse yet, it appears these prosecutors would have trumped this up
and made hay out of it had her mail not gotten there. So in another
context - what if the stock pump and dump scammers started using
wrapper text that mentioned organ donations to the point of poisoning
the Bayesian databases of all spamassassin enabled mail servers? What
if the mail has been blocked outright due to other spam filtering
already in place? Or put into a quarantine and she didn't look in her
quarantine box in time? Or if the sending server of the mail was on
an RBL due to some other user at the site sending spam to spamcop
spamtraps for example?
Drama is drama. I think what this guy did was reprehensible
and he certainly deserves the clink, but what he did is not any kind
of threat or risk to health and safety - the stupidity of using email
and computers for life saving communications IS.
$0.02
Mike-
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