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Originally posted by Lucky Striker This is a hoax. I've seen it before, last time it ws the US Post Office that came up with the idea.

Not a hoax..

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/intern...e.ap/index.html

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Originally posted by loconet Not a hoax.. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/intern...e.ap/index.html

and u believe everything cnn cooks up...

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Originally posted by Omegasox I've had a hotmail account for over a year now and have never received spam.

I have to say I am pleasantly surprised by Hotmail nowadays as well. I get a lot less spam than usual, and almost all of it goes to my Junk Mail folder.

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Originally posted by KilldaDJ and u believe everything cnn cooks up...

No that would be stupid. But if you were informed in the industry you would know that this proposal(link) has been circulating(link) for a while. Microsoft even plans to use their own patented(link) technology to do this (ofcourse more money for them).
Even Yahoo is involved:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/02/2136215

some more links...just in case

http://tech.velozie.com/news/470

I mean _you_ must trust bbc right

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3492354.stm


... so no the cnn link was just an example.

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I definately trust the beeb, but they made no mention of the cash issue. Its probubly just one of many ideas being considered though.

I'm not keen to pay to send emails around though, besides, I'm sure spammers will find a way around it.

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Originally posted by Lucky Striker I definately trust the beeb, but they made no mention of the cash issue.

true, sorry wrong link.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3324883.stm

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Originally posted by Lucky Striker This is a hoax. I've seen it before, last time it ws the US Post Office that came up with the idea.

the difference is if bill gates comes up with the idea, he will include it in the next version of windows and it will be taht way forever and noone can do anything about it cause windows is fucking standard .

a penny here or there may not be a problem for private persons, but for example a mailing list there will be enormous problems..

and who will get the monay, they will probably end up in bill's pocket... and how will this be done is practise? i think it is rather impossibler in fact

Good luck implementing this.

Assume that someone would manage to implement this idea, either by incorporating it into the current mail-system (good luck), or by creating an alternative system (and get everybody to use that instead of the old, free system [good luck again]), it would take about 2 days before someone would develop an new (free) system.

One would end up with the same problem as they have now with p2p filesharing. Each time someone manages to shutdown a p2p network, several new appear.

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