On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Steve Schear wrote: Steve,
I've been watching your views on ASRG, and honestly, I have to say Sender Pays is top on my list for Bad Ideas for reforming email.
We all want to get rid of spam. I think most folks on this list are in favor of using market dynamics to influence behaviour. I think adding an artificial fee to sending email is stupid. It is creating false scarcity to fix a broken system. Further, it will end up becoming a new profit center for ISPs - send an email, pay 5 (or whatever) cents. I I know this is being thought about, but what about ad-hoc lists like CP? Who will pay for AOL delivery for that? Who pays for ASRG?
Sender pays is stupid. Don't support false scarcity.
I guess you have unlimited time and consider your time worthless. Its not the transport costs sender-pays is trying to price its our time. Sender-pays is trying to enable email recipients to establish a price for their eyeballs and attention. Advertisers do all the time.
steve
