Re: Fee Based Email (From Re: Process's PreciseMail AntiSpam...)

From: Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy (Andrew_No.Harrison_No_at_nospamn.sun.com)
Date: 10/03/03 

Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 09:45:50 +0100

Don Sykes wrote:
>
> Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy wrote:
>
>>Don Sykes wrote:
>>
>>>Dean Woodward wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Money, money, money. Tell me, people, who gets to keep all this money?
>>>
>>>
>>>In the potocol I'm proposing here, the answer is the end user recipient
>>>and some for the user's ESP. Further, there isn't necessarily all that
>>>much. Most people would allow mail from friends and assocciates to
>>>bypass Email charges and only charge for mail from unknown users. In
>>>addition, depending on the implementation, between the ESP and the
>>>recipient, they could credit back a fee if it was charged to a new user
>>>they wanted to communicate with.
>>>
>>>It also appears from comments that I need to describe the interaction
>>>between the ESP and the end recipient. While this in not part of the
>>>protocol I'm proposing, it seems the lack of implementation examples has
>>>led to some misunderstandings.
>>>
>>
>>Why not introduce a micro-charging mechanism which is refundable if
>>the recipient accepts the email and which isn't if it the email is
>>rejected either by a SPAM filter at the recipients ISP or by recipient.
>>
>
> I've considered adding a similar refund mechanism to this idea. The
> micro-charge (Digital's old millicent idea) may also work, but it sounds
> like all emails would be tagged with this charge, which isn't really
> necessary. I want free emails for friends, family & known customers
> without having to remember to reverse those charges. I'd also like to
> set higher charges on some mail types.
>

Well how about micro-charging with tariff bands.

Regards
Andrew Harrison

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