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Steve Sobol wrote:
> 
> Stan Brown (stbrown@nacs.net) wrote:
> 
> : It's hard to see how that could be done without also charging for "good"
> : emails like the ones I send!
> 
> You pay for sending "good" snail-mail. 32 cents a piece.
> 
> Am I necessarily advocating this? No, but it is something to think about.

And the "junk mail" subsidizes that rate, so no, it would not as necessarily 
raise the normal rates.  Do you send 100? 200 pieces of mail a month?  How 
about 1000 free?  After that there is a charge.  Its not like the mail isn't 
traceable.  But why should my mailbox be filled just because I post?  
  THe spam on the newsgroups coupled with the junk mail is rewarding people 
to not take part in the internet, but to passively watch it all as one big 
glob of crap.  To sit there and say "Oh well nothing can be done!" is 
idiotic, why should a newer system of communications be saddled by the legacy 
of an older system of payment?  E-mail on the internet does not have to 
follow the example of regular mail.  It can be more closely regulated.  Does 
that stink of the goverment sticking its nose in something? or a sensible 
answer to a big problem?

Chet