NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Bielanski]

Why of course!! By making it so that the average user can't send email
without buying postage, we'll virtually assure than no corporate marketing
campaign can bludgeon us to hell with their spam!! How come we never thought
of this before?!

oops.. forgot the sarcasm tags...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jon baer [mailto:jonbaer at jonbaer.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 12:11 PM
> To: talk at lists.nyphp.org
> Subject: [nycphp-talk] [ot] oh my god ... buy stamps to send email???
> 
> 
> LOL ... what in the world ...
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/05/spam.charge.ap/index.html
> 
> -snip-
> 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.
> -snip-
> 
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