By Christina Nickolas
My collegue Jim posted a column on “web traffic overload” http://www.eebeat.com/?p=5375
which got me to think, what if they (service provider or even the government) started charging for outgoing e-mail messages. Would you agree on that? Can you imagine how much free time you can have?
I waste so much time deleting spam e-mails and e-mails that don’t apply to me daily, not only business e-mail but personal ones as well.
So my question is would you vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to charging for outgoing e-mails?
I vote “YES”, absolutely!
16 Comments
I think bulk e-mail should carry a charge because bulk e-mail is usually business related. Bulk snail mail is charged at a lower-than-first-class rate, but it does cost something. I’m not thinking so much of my having to delete unwanted e-mail, but of saving the U.S. Postal Service, the agency I think should be in charge of e-mail as well as snail mail. That would save an entity that is authorized in the U.S. Constitution.
I don’t want the government to get involved in the free transfer of information
There may be other methods to crack down on unwantede e-mail or spam
I say no. I don’t want to be charged for outgoing email
Advertisements should be charged. Not ongoing regular conversations.
People who solicit advertisements should be charged
Interesting idea! I would vote “no” if it applied to all emails instead of just advertisements. I’d rather have emails that I can delete on my own time than people constantly calling or stopping by my desk to save a few cents.
Bulk and spam emails should carry a charge.
Bulk and spam email should be charged.
This was proposed by some legislator once. There’s no way you could charge people. That’s why AOL is extinct.
Charging for email = Fail.
I vote YES to bulk email and NO to personal email, if there could be way of doing that.
I agree with others who say that bulk mail and advertisements should be charged, but not personal emails.
No. Absolutely, positively not. I shudder to think of what would happen if that door opens. It always starts off “cheap” and ends up exorbitant.
Absolutely NOT! Adjust your filters please! Enough control already!
For the average home e-mail user I would vote ‘no’, even though some of the biggest spammers work from home. Deleting spam may be annoying, but does not require much mental or physical effort. For all businesses, I would vote ‘yes’ for in/out charges and taxes on both. This would cut down on useless communications and improve the important ones.
Here’s a good article:
http://www.inc.com/amy-buckner-chowdhry/reduce-email-overload-easy-ways.html
Yes, yes, yes
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