| Exactly. For example, I believe the readership of Fred Langa's LangaList is a few hundred thousand (completely opt-in, of course). Now suppose a charge of 1 penny per e-mail, that would be a few thousand dollars per mailing. And since he sends out mailings about once a week, he would need to pay a couple hundred thousand a year to operate his mailing list.
But while Fred might have to shut down his legitimate newsletter due to rising costs, Joe Spammer would just hijack a few PCs and use them to send out his mailings on another person's dime.
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-Jason Levine
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