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Story: Spam campaigners reject email payment plan

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Posted by: Jon (Tuesday 7 February 2006, 8:37 AM)

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Reckon paid for consumer email may well be sensible, only have to charge a fraction of a penny per email to make spam extremely difficult. The cost to your average consumer would be very low

Email like anything in life that is 'free' just gets abused, I really dont understand why people think the internet is some hippy playground, its a commercial infrastructure run to make money either directly or indirectly, just like the roads/railways are

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