Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: Junk E-mail
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 91 06:27:52 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr05.062752.6327@looking.on.ca>
References: <1991Mar31.003440.8270@rand.org> <13952@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Apr01.051101.3386@looking.on.ca> <1991Apr1.075621.6297@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <19142@rpp386.cactus.org> <1991Apr01.170812.18489@looking.on.ca> <1991Apr02.090040.831@am.sublink.org>

No, as I said, junk e-mail will be great, if it is classified.  Nobody
will pay to receive junk e-mail, as all recipient paid links will be
coded to refuse such e-mail.

Of course, the concept of paying for e-mail is likely to be a short lived
one.  E-mail is going to become so cheap soon that it will be hard to
imagine billing it at anything other than flat rate, although sending
huge files around (images, software, databases) will still possibly be
charged for.   But at rates of a penny/megabyte  (T-1 time is only slightly
more than this today) this may not even be a concern.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473