Email - Should the sender pay? April 20, 2006

A debate between pro-choice proponent Esther Dyson of Release 1.0 and anti-Goodmail activist Danny O'Brien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In light of AOL's adopting a "certified" email system, EFF
is hosting a debate on the future of email. With
distinguished entrepreneur Mitch Kapor moderating, EFF
Activist Coordinator Danny O'Brien and renowned tech expert
Esther Dyson will discuss the potential consequences if
people have to pay to send email. Would the Internet
deteriorate as a platform for free speech? Would spam or
phishing decline? Dyson supports choice and believes that the world will evelove to a recipient-charges/sender-pays model in which the recipient will charge nothing to a white list, whereas O'Brien fears that Goodmail and the like will close up the Net. Or as EFF puts it: In light of AOL's adopting a "certified" email system, EFF
is hosting a debate on the future of email. With
distinguished entrepreneur Mitch Kapor moderating, EFF
Activist Coordinator Danny O'Brien and renowned tech expert
Esther Dyson will discuss the potential consequences if
people have to pay to send email. Would the Internet
deteriorate as a platform for free speech? Would spam or
phishing decline?"



Event submitted by Eventful on behalf of edyson.