Re: Looking at the U in UBE

Quoting James Craig Burley <[email protected]>:

> >E-Mail is free and should always be free.  Any system that is not will never
> >succeed.
>
> More to the point, any such system ceases to be "email" in the proper
> sense of the word.
...
> Email *itself*, therefore, needn't, and probably shouldn't, impose a
> substantially higher penalty on its use over whatever people pay to
> access the Internet in the first place, because, first and foremost,
> it's a *communications* medium.

Right, because you never pay to send surface mail.

Or make cell calls

Or long distance

Or to place an advertisement in a shop window

Or buy paper to write on