Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!ccut!twics!jefu From: jefu@twics.co.jp (Jeffrey Shapard) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Junk E-mail Message-ID: <3500@twics.co.jp> Date: 6 Apr 91 12:28:01 GMT 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> Followup-To: g> Lines: 28 Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan Lines: 25 Alex Martelli makes a good point: internet email is not necessarily free to the senders _or_ receivers. Somebody always pays. If you are in North America and your government or organization picks up the tab, then you are living in a lucky illusion. Those of us outside the USA operate in quite different environments. It seems that the one in Italy is similar to the one in Japan, where we pay for _all_ our international email traffic, outbound and inbound, because folks on the other side have no mechanisms or policies, or perhaps even recognition of the issue, that cover it. (But, ah, the price of connectivity...) And... hmmm... this may also mean that if I send a message to Italy, both I and my addressee pay for it. But that is another issue. So, rather than receiving junk email in this current situation, I would rather see a widely distributed newsgroup, or newsgroups, where advertisers were free to post notices, and if I wanted more info, THEN I could solicit it and thereby choose to pay for the freight. (Or the sender could subscribe to DASnet, for example, and bear the charges themselves, which would be very nice.) --jefu * Jeffrey Shapard "Connectivity * * Connect-activist and Operations Director, TWICS, Tokyo is our biz..." *