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I don't think it's a terrible idea if implementd correctly and with the sole intent to cut down on spam. If they proce it low like 1 cent or 1/2 cent per email and ISP's build in a set number of "free" messages per month...lets say 6000 - thats about 200 per day and bill you for excess on a monthly basis based upon either the total per month or the average per day. I know I don't send 200 emails per day even when I do have lots of recipients. For a spammer to be viable it has to be like thousands per day. Assuming 1000 pere day that is an overage of 24000 x 1 cent = $240.00 and that is only assuming the small 1000 per day rate which is probably more like 10,000 per day.
And while this would cut into the freedom that the internet provides, there needs to be a way to stop spam and this might be it ...Maybe you guys send out more email than I do, but it wouldn't cost me a thing with these assumptions.
On the other hand, if we could just find a way to positively identify spammers and send big Sicilians to thier houses to make them an offer they can't refuse then this problem would be stopped more to my satisfaction.
Note that I don't want to see email postage ever, I am just looking at it through other pints of view and it could be half way viable to them.
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