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Paying for Email - bright idea by Gates (pg. 2)
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| beema |
ugh
Gates can go straight to hell
he doesn't give a about people being spammed, this is just another way for Microsoft to make even more money off of us and to control every facet of our lives more completely. |
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| KilldaDJ |
and u believe everything cnn cooks up... |
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| Omegasox |
| I've had a hotmail account for over a year now and have never received spam. |
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| beema |
| The only email address at which I recieve spam is my Yahoo account, and that is because I have given that address away to way too many 3rd parties through email registration and such. Having said that, Yahoo's spam filters work great and I rarely recieve any spam in my Inbox these days -- it all gets sent to the Junk Mail folder. |
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| Sand Leaper |
| quote: | 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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| Lucky Striker |
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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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | 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 ing standard :whip: :whip: .
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 :) |
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| cviper |
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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| whiskers |
| thank god for gAIM |
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