8><=========== I think Gates' second idea is more of a joke. He wants to require mail senders to "offer cash" to the recipient. The recipient would get the cash if they chose to open a message from an unknown sender. Potential customers would have to pay to send an inquiry to a company asking about an item the customer wishes to purchase. Spammers can easily say, "Sure, I'll offer you fifty dollars to read my message. Just try to collect it from me." For this to be effective, the Internet mail system would have to be "prepaid" for each recipient per email when relaying messages from mail server to mail server. The sender would have to pay an upfront fee to be permitted to send mail. The sender's ISP would have to deduct this fee from the sender's account and be prepaid with every ISP through whom their clients correspond so that the receiving ISP's servers could debit the sending ISP's accounts. There would also have to be tracking methods to see when credits are owned for unopened messages.
Im sure in Gates mind is control, what I suspect he wants is to be the middle man, the spammer hands money over to Gates so he can send "valuble marketing information" if the receiver accepts it, Gates takes a fat %. It would just be a matter of time before your email address was sold by Gates to a spammer I bet. Of course this would also leave Gates free to spam you directly as he feel like. This system assumes of course we want to use Gates's email system "hello Exchange!" I cant see such an idea taking off, ppl and companies already dont trust MS and passport. regards thing
