Re: Why are we here? What are our goals?

At 6:04 PM -0500 1/29/04, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
>Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
>
>>     -- economic mechanisms (postage, attention bonds)
>
>One of the reason why the Internet works so well as a communications 
>medium, is because it is cheaper than other mediums. Do we really 
>want to introduce artificial costs into the system?

<flip-remark>
Judging by the amount of spam I get each day, some artificial costs 
may not be such a bad thing.
</flip-remark>

We don't see the cost of transporting email, but it surely exists. 
However, as we're just brainstorming here, let's not start editing 
the list of topics just yet.

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john noerenberg
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