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Re: Spamming
At 2:55 PM 8/22/96, Vipul Ved Prakash wrote:
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> 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.
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