stamps for email

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

NEW YORK (AP) -- If the U.S. Postal Service delivered mail for free, our mailboxes would surely runneth over with more credit-card offers, sweepstakes entries, and supermarket fliers. That's why we get so much junk e-mail: It's essentially free to send. So Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates, among others, is now suggesting that we start buying "stamps" for e-mail.

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

Things that make you go, "Hmm?".

 

[momof3disneyholics]

This is insane!! I don't see this ever working.

 

[MeanLaureen]

Anyone ever see that Candid Camera (i think) episode where they were in the post office and trying to sell email stamps to people for a penny each??

 

[Robinrs]

If it stops those idiotic spams I get on a daily basis... btw, guys I'm not MALE so stop sending them to me!!!! I'm all for it!

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

My thought of an alternative is email should be treated like text messages on cell phones. You pay to send a message, nothing to receive. It could be incorporated in to your monthly plan for service.

 

[nativetxn]

I'd go broke if they charged for "postage" on emails. It might be worth it to get rid of the spam, though