Penny Black Project Investigates Sender-Pays E-mail

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday February 15, 2003 @07:56AM from the what's-the-deductable-please dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The Inquirer reports: Microsoft contemplating charging for emails. 'MICROSOFT IS UNFOLDING something it calls the Penny Black project in which people sending emails might have to pay for the privilege.' Microsoft's explanation of the project is here: The Penny Black Project." There are a lot of things going on at Microsoft Research -- no guarantee that particular ones are going to be released in the real world. (And Microsoft isn't the only party interested in sender-pays, or at least sender-risks-paying systems.)

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Re:Remember the good old days... by quacking+duck · 2003-02-15 08:05 · Score: 5, Insightful

It is rapidly being forgotten that things being free was one of the reasons why this internet thingy took off in the first place.
Much like freedom though, there are always the jackass minority that abuse it and wreck it for the rest of us.