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E-mails why no charge?


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There used to be a charge. Prestel charged 5p per MBX (mailbox) message in 1985, which was equivalent to about a page of teletext (which is what the system display was). You could even TELEX a company for 50p.

 

I used to pay 25 cents an email in 1989, though the first 4 emails sent from the account were FREE!

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If there was a small charge - and I mean small like perhaps 0.05p per destination address it'd knock spam on the head overnight. If your ISP gave you a thousand free emails a month I doubt most people would ever get into the charge point.

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Billions..Trillions...Zillions sent every year.

 

Will there ever be a charge for this service?

 

There shouldn't be - in theory the more their email service is used, the more potential advertising revenue they get.

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