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

From: Christoph Gartmann (gartmann_at_non.immunbio.mpg.de.sens)
Date: 10/03/03 

Date: 3 Oct 2003 15:32:59 GMT

In article <bli3vb$92j$1@news.mdx.ac.uk>, david20@alpha2.mdx.ac.uk writes:
>>This is true for a normal end-user but not for a spammer. I'm quite confident
>>that the ISP will charge every user that exceeds a certain mail limit. This
>>will happen in GB as well as in Brazil. This is what I want.
>>
>
>Sorry I doubt it will have any effect other than raising connection fees.

I cannot proofe it. But what I notice at the moment is the following: the
current fee for a spammer is a fixed one. So when it sends 10,000 mails out and
he finds only one stupid person that will pay, it will send 1,000,000 out to
find at least ten people. Next, it will send 10,000,000 mails out because it
costs the same. Now with the fee, an ISP will calculate its fee on the basis
of his normal users which send about 10 messages per day. Do you think the ISP
will tolerate an excessive increase in his costs? The rates of ISPs today are
very often based on a certain amount of data (e.g. up to a limit of 5 GB per
month). With the e-mail fee the contracts will look pretty much the same: a
monthly fee that includes 500 e-mails per month and 5 GB or something similar.

The problem is, how does one force the average ISP on earth to force people to
such a contract? This is why I suggest a tax or similar on the few largest
companies that is based on the amount of mail that passes through them.

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann 

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