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Story: Is it time to charge for email?

Posted by: Martin Schares (Sunday 7 March 2004, 5:08 AM)

We have to pay to buy a computer. We have to pay to buy the operating system (unless you are smart and use linux). You have to pay for the software to send emails. You have to pay for an internet connection. You have to pay for email accounts. And you have to pay for the amount of bandwidth you use. If there is a charge for emails you will be getting charged for everything you do. Who is going to want to pay?!? And microsoft is stupid for saying this because linux has slowly been creeping up on them and now they want to charge for email. Email is used very widely as a form of communication and if they start charging more and more people are going to goto linux. And besides when you pay for bandwidth you are paying to have a connection to the internet. All that connection is... is sending voltage or light across either coper or fiber. What does it matter if those volages are a webpage or if they are email. And if you start charging for email are you going to start charging for popups to.. They are just as anoying. spam and popups and everything else is just apart of the internet. If you dont like it dont use the internet its as simple as that.