From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:21:13 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Spamming
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At 2:55 PM 8/22/96, Vipul Ved Prakash wrote:
>>
>
>    Internet pricing models are complicated and debatable, but you surely
>    end up paying for snail-junk-mail. Not directly, but hidden in the high
>    first-class mail costs. More mail, more infrastructure, higher costs.

Actually, precisely the opposite is true, according to a number of studies.
"Bulk mail" is a major profit center for the Postal Service, thus
subsidizing non-bulk /first class mail.

-- Tim May

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