[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Ebay bad sellers

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 21:26, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
>KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>> Now, if EVERY ISP would charge .01 cent for every email sent, that
>> would scarcely bother anyone except spammers.
>
>The problem with that is if your machine gets trojaned / compromised,
> as is often the case and starts sending out hundereds if not
> thousands of emails without you realising it. Yeah you could make it
> part of the ISP T&C that you are reponsible for making sure this
> doesn't happen but there are enough people out there who are not
> computer literate enough to prevent this that it would probably be
> ineffective.

Too true.

> >    But everyone has to do it, so no  one
> > ISP gets cut off.
>
>And by everyone this has to mean every ISP in the world, that might be
>hard to implement :(

Thats the whole point, AOL will be the one doing the cutting of 
themselves off from the rest of the world. AOL isn't the only service 
out there you know...

>Phill.
>
>--
>Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric
> !
>
>"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
stupid bounce rules.  I do use spamassassin too. :-)
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