heard through the grape vine that there are ISP's now starting to charge to send emails basically with the notion that they guarentee delivery of the email to its destination. at the moment its volentary charge.. i surpose like sending a letter recording delivery you volenteer to pay the extra to guarentee delivery. They also say that if everyone starts to pay to send emails this will deter spamers :confused: seems like a crappy excuse to get people to pay for sending emails.

Details are sctechy at the moment but has anyone else heard this or know more details...

Thanks

Joel

heard through the grape vine that there are ISP's now starting to charge to send emails basically with the notion that they guarentee delivery of the email to its destination.

:confused: How does an ISP guarantee an e-mail gets to where it's going? Surely that's rather like the UK Highway Agency guaranteeing that you'll have clear roads all the way if you're driving across Europe?!

A lot of spammers do already pay to send e-mail through bulk e-mail providers, so I would agree that charging people for sending e-mail does seem a poor excuse.

Coupled with the fact that the only deterrent here is money - if the business generated from responses to spam e-mail is enough to warrant the cost of spamming, it will still happen!

Rob.

The way my ISP does it seems to make a lot more sense - only allow authenticated email to be sent, that way it's much harder to gain access to send emails by say bypassing security on a box and using the local sendmail function(s).

That said, it won't help much & no doubt I'll get scr*wed on cost on this one as well now.

Are they claiming to offer some kind of enforced Message Disposition Notification. ?

Can't see how they can gaurantee delivery. You should already get a 'bounce' back in most cases anyway if your email cannot be delivered successfully. Even if it reaches the other persons mail server their is no gaurantee that they have downloaded the mesage let alone read it (MDN is not always enabled and not every one acknowledges it).

Here at work we use our own servers, so dont use any ISP servers for sending email at all, we go straight to the destination.

At home I have a simillar arrangement and bypass NTL's SMTP server which is pants anyway as when I have had to use it emails seem to get lost. The only problem with the home setup is sending emails to AOL addresses.

Surely that's a good thing though :P

like i said my details are scetchy... hence the post...

Joel

I heard the the ISP's were also thinking of charging the likes of google to have access to their networks...

http://www.thewhir.com/marke****ch/021306_Google_Opposes_ISP_Fees_Pitch.cfm