Archive for 2004-02-07

Email Fees and Viruses

One objection to email fees is related to email viruses: if every email you send costs a cent, and you get a virus that sends out 20,000 emails you’ve just lost $200. That sucks. Fortunately, that’s straightforward avoidable by limiting the amount of money your computer can access without your authorisation (by way of password, […]

The Root of all Evil

The Gnu Hunter writes: Yahoo and Microsoft are looking at ways of imposing a postage fee for emails as a way of reducing the ever increasing number of junk emails or spam. No, Yahoo and Microsoft are looking at ways of making more money by charging for something that was previously “free” and are using […]