CDR: Re: FW: BLOCK: AT&T signs bulk hosting contract with spammers

[Declan McCullagh]

Then, depending on your personal preferences and how valuable you
think you are to prospective emailers, accept only email messages with
$0.10, or $1.00, or $10.00...

It's a market; you do the math.

-Declan


On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 08:14:34PM -0800, jim bell wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alex B. Shepardsen <abs at squig.org>
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Kevin Elliott wrote:
> >
> > > You know, I don't like spammers any more than the next guy, but come
> > > on.  Unethical?  we're not talking genocide and it's not like it
> >
> > We ought to be. If spammers feared death as a result of their actions,
> > they would be a lot less likely to spam.
> 
> I've got a solution to that....oh, never mind.
> 
> If "spammers" attached a digi-nickel to each spam, you'd only have to get
> 300 such pieces per month (10 per day) to pay for the typical ISP account
> monthly cost.
> 
> Jim Bell
> 
>