E-Mail Postage?
Mar. 5th, 2004 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomHere's a fascinating thought:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/05/spam.charge.ap/index.html
The gist of it is, charging a minimal amount for e-mail -- say, a penny per -- and having the option of, say, a ten-second math quiz or something to "buy" e-pennies. Easy enough for you and I; not so easy for spammers, dealing with millions of e-mails at a pop.
I can see problems with people who have large mailing lists, but there should be some interim level of "purchase", or perhaps a certain amount free per month -- or perhaps like a calling plan, where you get a number of credits equal to the cost in pennies of your monthly online bill. That'd give me almost 4,000; I think I could get by with that. :) There's subscription -- f'rinstance, I subscribe to both comics.com and mycomics.com, $10 each per year, which easily includes the prospective penny per day.
Thoughts?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/05/spam.charge.ap/index.html
The gist of it is, charging a minimal amount for e-mail -- say, a penny per -- and having the option of, say, a ten-second math quiz or something to "buy" e-pennies. Easy enough for you and I; not so easy for spammers, dealing with millions of e-mails at a pop.
I can see problems with people who have large mailing lists, but there should be some interim level of "purchase", or perhaps a certain amount free per month -- or perhaps like a calling plan, where you get a number of credits equal to the cost in pennies of your monthly online bill. That'd give me almost 4,000; I think I could get by with that. :) There's subscription -- f'rinstance, I subscribe to both comics.com and mycomics.com, $10 each per year, which easily includes the prospective penny per day.
Thoughts?
