First of all, I would like to apologize if it looked like I accused Peter of being involved with a conspiracy. I have communicated with him privately concerning this matter, and am now making my public apology. Thanks! Concerning my other statements, I think I was a little confused on the implementation of this idea, but now that I've re-read the posts, I'm confused in another way. It seems this feature only applies to mail forwarded through a remailer. As mentioned on several posts, which may be the main idea, this would reduce the amount of noise submitted to lists. This would be a good thing, for sure. Knowing that your useless messages are costing even $.25 would be enough to cut down drastically on spam. However, I still don't see how this is to be implemented for direct email. How would this work for an entity sending email directly to your account, rather than through a remailer? The solutions that come to mind are 1) get new mail software which performs this filtering/charging and 2) have an autoreply that sends mail not sent through your "post office" back to the sender with a note saying to route it through the "post office." This "post office" would be much like with snail mail. All it does is collect and redistribute mail (for a small fee, of course... :-) This would be a good business proposition, indeed. However, I don't know how widely accepted it would be. Comments? Am I missing the point? PM USER ERROR: REPLACE AND STRIKE ANY KEY WHEN READY