Re: e-postage stamps, was Welcome to the new(ish) ASRG list
"John R. Levine" <[email protected]>
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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", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly