Bill Gates has been talking about dealing with the unsolicited
electronic mail issues - and he's proposing a 1 cent
charge for each
email delivered. Basically stamps for e-mail. I don't know if you've
seen this, but I had heard about it,
thought it was a bit "out there"
but figured it was more to start a discussion about process, rather
than a complete
proposal. I had only seen it in Tech publications -
almost a "request for comments" kind of presentation... I thought.
Then this weekend's newspaper ran it as a page 1, business section
article. Suddenly it's a general population issue and we need to be
very careful how this is presented and proposed. I don't think people
are thinking this through much. If you really think about several
different aspects of this proposal, it's both not practical, and it
looks to break the "even playing field" of the Internet. If you
consider the infrastructure it would take to charge micro-payments, to
incur charges against your companies "account" every time an email is
sent, that alone is something that just hasn't been addressed to-date.
Kindly send your views