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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (59179)	3/4/2004 8:15:47 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 64865

If such a thing is to be developed, I think the "postage" should be paid to the recipient, who should be able to easily waive it for messages they choose to receive. That way, consensual messages would remain free, which would allow setting the "postage" rates high enough to be effective (e.g. on the order of current snail mail rates or perhaps even higher) without constituting a drag on e-mail's usefulness. Either that, or only charge "postage" if delivery is declined (and make it easy to signal such decline). Either way, it will be important to eliminate spoofed addresses. JMHO. Charles Tutt (SM)