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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"Penny Black Poject" by zephc · 2003-02-15 08:01 · Score: -1, Redundant

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You can't be too cynical when MS is involved. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-15 08:19 · Score: -1, Redundant

This isn't a plan to stop spam, it's a scheme to ensure that Microsoft get money for every bit of spam sent (or rather, delivered).