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Originally posted by goBigtime
And how do you keep large hosting companies who have these wholesale rates for larger clients legitimate?
Everyone knows hosting companies can be trusted to help defeat spam
Why would you be happy to pay for something that should be free?
To help end spam? There are other ways.
What if your business model requires that you do daily mailings, but because of the pay-per-email rule, you are now forced to conduct a monthly mailing? Assume it is for a daily newsletter type of thing that customers actually WANT to receive.
There are a lot of questions that come up about the Pay-Per-email model... #1 being - who gets the money and why? Last thing we need is another Network Solutions type of company being given park place and boardwalk again. And what is to stop it from becoming a pay-per-SPAM model once they get it all into place (ala USPS Bulkmail.)
What about businesses that have millions of legitimate contacts? They should not be burdened financially in ANY way, regardless of how small the amount per email is for them.
Pay-per-email is BS.
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Who ever thought stopping spam could be done for free is living in a dream world. But not stopping it is costing us all a lot more than a cent an email.
OK if you are a large company and you have a large site you get a bigger allowance. But think about it if a company does not make $1 for a every hundred they send out, they should examine their business model.
If it's a purely informative email then maybe there could be allowances for education. But if you are a business like Adult.com you are sending out emails to make money, not educate people.
As for who gets the money well this is a situation that needs addressing. But with hosting as competetive as it is, if they got more money in one door they could and probably would reduce costs out of another.
And do not forget I said it should be optional, if you choose to go the old route of free emails then fine and you can choose if you want to recieve them as well.
But the biggest problem to my idea is the dream that the Internet is free. It never was and never will be. Somebody somewhere has to pay for it and that is the consumer.
Think about all the people who are scared to join a site because they fear getting spammed by porn sites, think about all the people who wil think Bush is right to fight porn becasue they get it in their email box?
All at a cost to us.
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Who collects the funds? Who keeps track of whether a "user" has sent over 1000 messages? Who verifies that a message is paid for or not? What about companies who are their own hosts?
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All fine tuning. No host will allow a million emails to go out with out the money paid up front. The massage has to be tagged as a paid one or not, this is programming violaters would face massive fines. Companies doing their own hosting would have to be charged. Don't forget the key is to tag the email and then the reciever opts if he wants free mail or not.