On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Billy M. Rhodes wrote:

In a message dated 2/22/2003 7:16:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

Billy, I'm afraid you're wrong on this. Email is a free service. There is
no-one to pay. The guys hijacking it for their own potential profits are
arse-holes.

Kev Bailey

We seem to forget that someone has to pay for this FREE service and the
payment is spam.

How is the infrastructure maintained?

That is what you pay your ISP for. From what they collect from you, they
purchase packet transmittion from the network companies. Passage along
networks is similar to phone traffic - if the source network originates
more traffic than they receive they make a payment to the receiving network.
All the costs should be covered by your monthly fee. Of course if you are
using a "free" email service, then you should expect advertisements but only
those that are posted by or through your immediate service provider.

Harvey

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