Spamming

[Vipul Ved Prakash]

> 
> At 06:09 PM 8/20/96 -0700, Rich Graves wrote:
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> No.  I think we can all (most) agree that spam-email is like junk-snailmail.
> In that case there are a few things to consider:
> 
>   1. Junkmail requires the SENDER to pay for it, not the recipient.
    Internet pricing models are complicated and debatable, but you surely
    end up paying for snail-junk-mail. Not directly, but hidden in the high
    first-class mail costs. More mail, more infrastructure, higher costs.
    This could be quite true for the net also, if we consider bandwidth costs
    money.
  
Vipul

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