However, if this is an effective method of ridding the world of this
scourge, i.e. spam emails,
wouldn't 99% of us be willing to cop a charge of one cent or even a few
cents for each email we send.
I would expect that the implementation of such a scheme would be capable of
excluding legitimate list owners,
such as birding-aus, from payment of such charges. It might involve a once
off or annual registration charge to manage
a register of legitimate forums. The technology would not be that difficult
to set up.
Here's to the end of spam - may it soon die and long may it be dead!!!
Bob Cook
-----Original Message-----
From:
Behalf Of Alec
Gillespie
Sent: Saturday, 7 February 2004 8:21 AM
To: Birding-Aus
Subject: Threat to Birding-Aus
As members may well be aware there is a significant problem with spam
emails. In response to this there are proposals in the wind from the big
companies such as AOL and Microsoft to impose a senders charge on emails of
roughly 1 cent. If this happens and becomes widespread it would have major
affects on free groups such as this, and could cost the group, or Russell,
roughly a dollar a week per member.
If this happens the consequences such as closure, subscription or
sponsorship all will have major consequences for the numbers in the group
and thus quality of information being exchanged. Lets hope it never
happens, but we should all try to oppose it, if the proposals become serious
Alec Gillespie
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