{"id":7160,"date":"2004-02-03T17:30:27","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T22:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=7160"},"modified":"2013-06-29T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T21:47:12","slug":"email-postage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2004\/02\/03\/email-postage\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Postage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, the idea of\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetnews.com\/IAR\/article.php\/3307601\" target=\"_new\">email postage<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0crops up. Every time I recall the chainletter from the\u00c2\u00a0late 90s from people terrified that maybe the Internet will no longer be free because the Post Office was going to take it over and charge as much per email as letters.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the idea is back as a solution to spam. Have reard rumblings about this being\u00c2\u00a0<strong>the<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0solution for a couple years. As spam has gotten more and more prevalent, more drastic solutions will have to be taken.<\/p>\n<p>Will need some new clients, servers, and network devices to make this work. Perhaps that is why Microsoft is now a proponent?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Preserved comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"ctext-109349317\">Spam is annoying, but it&#8217;s not the end of the universe.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a reason we have a delete button.\u00c2\u00a0 Just use it, get over it.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s what I say.<\/div>\n<div>Posted 2\/9\/2004 5:17 PM by anonymous<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div id=\"ctext-109679469\">\n<p>I used to spend\u00c2\u00a04 hours every Monday morning sifting through email sent over the weekend. Installed and configured SpamBayes. Now I spend less than an hour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Posted 2\/10\/2004 9:37 AM by <a href=\"http:\/\/sneezypb.xanga.com\/\">sneezypb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, the idea of\u00c2\u00a0email postage\u00c2\u00a0crops up. Every time I recall the chainletter from the\u00c2\u00a0late 90s from people terrified that maybe the Internet will no longer be free because the Post Office was going to take it over and charge as much per email as letters. Now, the idea is back as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-xanga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1Ru","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}