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Yes, and ̶G̶m̶a̶i̶l̶ email is such a successful example.
by KRAKRISMOTT 3y ago
Yes, and ̶G̶m̶a̶i̶l̶ email is such a successful example.
- NoraCodes 3y agoIt is. I switched away from Gmail; many have.
- kelnos 3y agoSame, but I realize that nearly everyone I correspond with uses Gmail, so Google has all my emails regardless. (Ok, they don't get my transactional email, since those are usually sent through something like Sendgrid, but... yeah.)
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> Same, but I realize that nearly everyone I correspond with uses Gmail, so Google has all my emails regardless. I know some very privacy-focused person (a friend of mine) who will stop being willing to be in contact with you (or being your friend) if you use an email address at one of these big spying email providers to write him an email. So, it is just a matter of being consequential.
- thereisnospork 3y agoImagine if the progenitors of email thought to require e-stamps, say a thousand emails for a buck. There's a parallel universe where 'Email co.' is a major tech player comparable to Google. Not sure it's a better universe, but bears consideration.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoIn the late 1980s, I worked for a company that wanted to do exactly that. It was an X.400-based nightmare, and never took off.
- unholythree 3y agoI remember a joke (or conspiracy theory) from the 90’s that the US Postal Service wanted to charge people per email.
- lacrimacida 3y agoMaybe not USPS but it would be okay to pay for it somehow to make it harder for scammers, spammers and other harbingers of ruin.
- StreetChief 3y agoThis effectively does exist https://www.jpay.com/PEmessages.aspx https://www.jpay.com/PEmessages.aspx