Full Version: Stamps on E-mail
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| If the U.S. Postal Service delivered mail for free, our mailboxes would surely runneth over with more credit-card offers, sweepstakes entries, and supermarket fliers. That's why we get so much junk e-mail: It's essentially free to send. So Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates, among others, is now suggesting that we start buying "stamps" for e-mail. Many Internet analysts worry, though, that turning e-mail into an economic commodity would undermine its value in democratizing communication. But let's start with the math: At perhaps a penny or less per item, e-mail postage wouldn't significantly dent the pocketbooks of people who send only a few messages a day. Not so for spammers who mail millions at a time. Though postage proposals have been in limited discussion for years -- a team at Microsoft Research has been at it since 2001 -- Gates gave the idea a lift in January at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Details came last week as part of Microsoft's anti-spam strategy. Instead of paying a penny, the sender would "buy" postage by devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solving a math puzzle. The exercise would merely serve as proof of the sender's good faith News Source:CNN |
What do you at Geeknewz think of this? I think it's a great idea.
couldnt have put it a bit bigger? lol. Great idea? I think its crap, its just another way for M$ to make more bucks, with the excuse of trying to help people out so that they dun get junk mail. If it ever comes to them charging me to send an email, I shall never email again, in fact i dun even need it that much at all.
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid... STUPID. That is one of the dumbest ideas i have heard ever, but one of the best for money making. They are gona get loadsa cash at first. But it will destroy the idea of email... email is suppose to be quick, the time you spend gettin an e-stamp and putting it on. Email is suppose to be free, well it won't be free because you have to buy a stamp. Email is suppose to be good, this would make email bad. Come on!!! I frequently email my sister who is at university and she emails me back because apart from expensive (to her mobile) phone calls it really the only communication we have got. I leave you by saying E-Stamps (my name for them) will completley destroy email. Also it will destroy my dad and businesses he sends over 300 emails a week, say at the cheapest it was say 5p per e-stamp then thats ｣15.00 a week and thats ｣780 per year. As i said stupid, but M$ will make a heapfull of cash every second.
Nah.. i think a lot of people will continue using it for about 1 cent an email.. its gonna get rid of the spam.. and that's what counts for a lot of people ..
How would 1 cent per email deter spammers, and undoubtably experienced spammers will just get round it and then tell other spammers how to. Which will create a level of corruption in our society not a very good idea.
you would have to kill me, walk over my dead body, stamp on it with an elephant, maim me completely, destroying my muscles from head to toe before I pay even half a cent for an email.
| QUOTE (gofikphoenix @ Mar 7 2004, 09:52 PM) |
| How would 1 cent per email deter spammers, and undoubtably experienced spammers will just get round it and then tell other spammers how to. Which will create a level of corruption in our society not a very good idea. |
One single spammer could send millions of emails a day.. 1 cent each.. it does add up .. they mgiht get around it .. they might not
Every system has a floor and this would be a system and it would have a floor. Especially if it is made by Microsoft 
If there's a will there's a way and this won't stop spam; someone will always find a way around something. I send email very infrequently so it wouldn't affect me much but I'd rather stay away from it. Spam isn't the end of world for me. I'm using Spamihilator although I'm not sure if it's working.
its as simple as this..dont sign up on just any site and give ur info away. companies pay to get that info and send u crap .
what a hell... thats grrrr...
Any word how they think this will be done? Is it just gonna be mail server software or how exactly would that work. If its just mail server software screw em.. I'll setup my own mail server...
| QUOTE (gofikphoenix @ Mar 8 2004, 09:12 AM) |
| Every system has a floor and this would be a system and it would have a floor. Especially if it is made by Microsoft |
Every system has a floor?
How amusing.
P.S. I support the "don't sign up; don't get fed up" notion. I'm yet to get unwanted mail through my domain and i've had it for over a year now. No, that's not an invitation!
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