Stamps will not work Seth
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The reason that what you’re suggesting is impractical is that nobody has yet divised a way to tell the difference between personal email and spam. So, unless people are willing to have everyone pay for email, then nobody will pay for email. Spammers will always be ten steps ahead of the ISPs when it comes to getting their spams into our mailboxes. The only thing what your proposing would accomplish is to have legitimate marketers pay money to whatever ISP cartel forms to accept the payment. Small time marketers would lose out big time, or have to resort to the lowest of spammer tricks. I have to chalk this up as the worst idea I’ve heard from you Seth.
Don’t know what I’m talking about? Read this post from Seth Godin.
Peter Davis is a web developer, investor, author, entrepreneur, and most importantly a father. 
hey, if that’s my worst idea ever, I’m doing great!
I wouldn’t be reading your blog every day if I didn’t agree with that.
Email stamps
Seth writes about email stamps (and expands on the subject). It’s not a new thought to me, but I think its validity makes it pop up every now and again, and then the arguments against it do too.
Peter T Davis rebuts that it’s not going to work becau…
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