[ale] OT: the Penny Black anti-spam proposal

[Ben Coleman]

Geoffrey wrote:

> I'd rather see a $$ cost associated with this problem.  I don't know 
> what the actual parameters would be, but for example, charge $1 for 
> every 1000 emails.  I'd be please to pay an extra $1 a month.  If you're 
> sending out 1,000,000 messages every week, you're going to feel the pain.

What's that going to do to legitimate mailing lists (like ALE)? 
Multiply the number of messages that go through ALE each day by the 
number of subscribers and I suspect that even at $1 per 1000, its going 
to become too costly to run.

Ben