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This is a great point - and was the primary idea behind charging for sending email by the message to combat spam. Someone years ago proposed that if we just ch
by rplst8 9y ago
This is a great point - and was the primary idea behind charging for sending email by the message to combat spam. Someone years ago proposed that if we just charged 5 cents per message sent, most people would pay less than $5 a month while spammers would have to pay millions of dollars of the course of a year, making the business unprofitable.
- dx034 9y agoYou could probably charge 0.1c and it would still work. But maybe make companies more aware of what to send. Every Amazon order automatically causes 4 emails (ordered, dispatched, out for delivery, delivered). If fulfilled by Amazon even 5 because then the seller will ask for a review a week later.
- artursapek 9y agoI don't mind this at all. Amazon's emails are hardly on the list of annoying robo-emails. They actually deliver useful information.
- bluGill 9y agoRight, but amazon wouldn't send them in a world where they pay to send. Email would cost Amazon millions of dollars each year.
- artursapek 9y agoOf course not, but they shouldn't. They let me modify my email preferences and choose which emails I receive. I am happy paying $20/year for email storage.