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

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 27 Feb 2006 at 23:46, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:

> BTW, AOL  is discussing this brilliant idea of charging everyone a small
> fee, less  than a cent, per email message they allow thru to their
> subscribers,  supposedly in an attempt to control spam.  Since the
> majority of the  rest of the ISP's won't even consider paying that, AOL
> will be effectively  disconnected from the internet, so you might want to
> look around for  another ISP.

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I see this solely as another revenue stream. Consider 10 million 
subscribers sending an average of 10 emails per day at $.01 per 
email comes to $1 million per day. $365 million per year. Not a bad 
revenue stream that is pure profit. They don't h ave to do anything 
to generate it. Their coustomers do that. 

Do I think iti stinks, heck yes. Considering the servers and 
connection is already paid by subscription, any surcharge on emails 
is a means of nothing more than an  increase of revenue.

james