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"Opinion polls suggest an extremely high level of resistance to any kind of financial cost potentially being involved in sending e-mail." I think this is the m
by mathgeek 11y ago
"Opinion polls suggest an extremely high level of resistance to any kind of financial cost potentially being involved in sending e-mail."
I think this is the most important point of the whole concept. Make people pony up cash to send email, and they will send their messages in some other way.
Remember when SMS messages used to cost money no matter what service you used?
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoAnd remember how people sent a billion of them? Opinion polls are different from, how people will actually respond. They'll gripe, then they'll pay up.
- mathgeek 11y agoMy point was that once services appeared that let you send them as part of a package or even for free, people flocked to them. Of course people complained and used the service when there was no alternative. I'd say that in that limited scope of an example, opinion polls and consumer action were very similar.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoI'm wondering if email could be sold as a pay-to-play (not pay-per-email) sort of thing? We already pay our ISP, so I guess that's happening already. The only question is then, how much more would we pay for good email? SPAM-free email, with messages vetted by authentic origin.
- JoshTriplett 11y agoThe problem is that you don't care about paying, you care about other people paying. Email exists already, and email sent without paying must continue to arrive. Also note the myriad issues associated with mailing lists and similar.
- ryan-c 11y agoI run my own mail server, and would happily risk a few cents per email to not have to deal deliverability bullshit. I'm a little sad hashcash never caught on for email.