Re: Inexpensive anti-spamware/anti-verminware tactic

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Which on average will be exactly the same size as the incoming mail store
> > was,
> 
> No, it won't.

Why won't it?

> Read the proposal again.  If receivers don't unpin messages, they can still
> expire from the mail store.  ISPs need not let their customers' outgoing mail
> store grow beyond limit.  But even better (from an ISP's point of view), they
> can simply bill higher fees for larger outboxes.

So recipients will find messages randomly disappearing from their
inboxes. If they go on holiday for too long ("too long" being a length
of time they have no way of knowing in advance since different message
stores will presumably have different expiry times) they will be told
about messages they received but can no longer read. ISP customers
will be billed extra for storage that is not under their control and
that they can do nothing about. A utopian future indeed.