Re: e-postage stamps, was Welcome to the new(ish) ASRG list

"John R. Levine" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
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> Unlike Bill Gates proposal I want to reduce the senders cost to as close to 
> nil as possible (except for spammers of course).
>
> I was thinking when you pay your monthly fee to your ISP you get a certain 
> number of stamps. As long as the recipient accepts the email the stamp is 
> "refunded"it goes back into your stamp bank. If your ISP wont play ball you 
> can collect your stamps as an individual or organisation.

This, ah, isn't exactly a new idea.  You might want to look at the white 
paper I wrote in 2004 about e-postage.

It's #2 at http://www.taugh.com/

Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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