>And I also remember thinking at the time that you missed one very >important angle, and that is that the typical ISP has the technical >capability to bill based on volume of traffic already, and could easily >bill per-byte for any traffic with 'e-mail properties' like being on >certain ports or having certain characteristics. Yeah, I'm well aware >of the technical issues with that; I never said it was a good idea, but >what is the alternative?
Where do you expect them to send the bill? R's, John PS: The alternative is to deal directly with spam issues, rather than replacing them with even worse e-postage issues. One of the things I pointed out in that white paper is that as soon as you have real money involved, you're going to have a whole new set of frauds and scams that are likely to be worse than the ones you thought you were solving.
