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

[Geoffrey]

Ben Coleman wrote:
> 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.

As I noted, the numbers I used were just thrown out there.  Some 
research is obviously required.  Maybe it's .01 for 1,000,000 messages.

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