And I also remember thinking at the time that you missed one very important angle, and that is that the typical ISP has the technical capability to bill based on volume of traffic already, and could easily bill per-byte for any traffic with 'e-mail properties' like being on certain ports or having certain characteristics. Yeah, I'm well aware of the technical issues with that; I never said it was a good idea, but what is the alternative?
Where do you expect them to send the bill? R's, John PS: The alternative is to deal directly with spam issues, rather than replacing them with even worse e-postage issues. One of the things I pointed out in that white paper is that as soon as you have real money involved, you're going to have a whole new set of frauds and scams that are likely to be worse than the ones you thought you were solving.