Sending an email? Did you buy your stamps?

[sublime]

Good ole Billy Gates

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/05/spam.charge.ap/index.html

[David Prahl]

Actually I'm sharing stamps with 2.2 million other people.

I can see it now:

Download Warez, Serialz, and Stampz here!

[JustinGTP]

Too true David!

And it is not like we don't pay already to get onto the internet!

[dean_shan]

Too true David!

And it is not like we don't pay already to get onto the internet!

How true. I'll deal with spam before I spend money for each message.

[Janak Parekh]

How true. I'll deal with spam before I spend money for each message.
Maybe. Fast forward 10 years. At the rate spam is growing, it'll be 99.9% of all email. Imagine getting a 100-1 spam-to-real-email ratio. 8O

--janak

[dean_shan]

I must be a rare case. I get about maybe 5 spam messages max a week.

[Janak Parekh]

I must be a rare case. I get about maybe 5 spam messages max a week.
I used to. But a few of my email addresses finally appeared on some spammer's list. :| Keep your name off every site, and you'll do fine. :)

--janak

[sublime]

Isn't the whole point of this a solution for spam? Companies won't be able to afford to flood our inboxes anymore. I figure that I'd much rather pay small prices for email stamps than get shotty software that doesn't block spam worth a damn.

[Janak Parekh]

Isn't the whole point of this a solution for spam? Companies won't be able to afford to flood our inboxes anymore. I figure that I'd much rather pay small prices for email stamps than get shotty software that doesn't block spam worth a damn.
While some spamblocking software actually works quite well, yes -- this is one possible way of overhauling SMTP so that the cost burden is not on the recipient (as it is now) but rather on the sender.

--janak

[Falstaff]

How true. I'll deal with spam before I spend money for each message.
Maybe. Fast forward 10 years. At the rate spam is growing, it'll be 99.9% of all email. Imagine getting a 100-1 spam-to-real-email ratio. 8O

--janak

Uhhh... I already get a roughly 50-75 : 1 ratio.... Outlook filters it out so that in my inbox I only get a 4 or 5 : 1 ratio.

[ale2999]

spam LOL.
i think that lately the hotmail spam filter got a WHOLE lot better as It catche 95% of the spam. so no problem there.

My isp is telus and they are using the most awesome server side spam filter. so no problem there either.
to whoever get lots, have fun :D