Re: Proposed EU Directive on Electronic Commerce

[Ulf Vedenbrant <]

On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Piet Beertema wrote:

>     With e-mail, it is ultimately the recipient who pays
> True, but that goes for *any* unsolicited e-mail,
> not only for unsolicited *commercial* e-mail.
> 
>     and with continued abuse it is probable that some means
>     of shifting the cost towards the sender will find favour.
> Agreed. Would *you* dare to come up with a global
> scheme for 'sender pays' charging though?

If we had "sender pays" we would not have this discussion..

/Uffe