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Pay-per-email plan to beat spam and help charity (newscientist.com)
2 points by vaksel on Aug 13, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



There used to be this checklist floating around with reasons why ad-hoc spam fighting plans don't work, pre-set to just check off the options instead of having to go through a laborious explanation why this idea won't work...

It has some application here.

To me this looks more like Yahoo is looking for additional revenue streams. It starts off with a cent for charity, we'll see where it leads.



If the stamps are anything like certificates, I think this is just going to become an inconvenience and not really be THAT effective (though I'm sure it will be put a significant dent in the problem, at least initially).




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