Since it is now free to send as much email as you wish, there is no regulation. Compare it to flyers in your real (no email) mailbox. Why is this not flooded? because it costs money to create the flyers and send it. It is too expensive to send 100.000.000 letters to everyone. By using email is it free.
I think therefore that having some (very limited) cost for external email would not be so bad. Even if it would cost only 1 cent per email, spam would self-regulate.
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Since it is now free to send as much email as you wish, there is no regulation. Compare it to flyers in your real (no email) mailbox. Why is this not flooded? because it costs money to create the flyers and send it. It is too expensive to send 100.000.000 letters to everyone. By using email is it free. I think therefore that having some (very limited) cost for external email would not be so bad. Even if it would cost only 1 cent per email, spam would self-regulate.
Are they charging for Internet access? In Europe, in most you have to pay a large sum of money just to get enough bandwidth to check your mail.
Good point. The Xandros people did the math. They were never going to be a major Linux distribution, so they took the money.