Esther Dyson, for whom I have the greatest of respect, has an OpEd piece in the NY Times today in favor or AOL's proposed charges for email. "Pretty soon sending most e-mail will cost money," she writes, "but I think that's only right."
I don't. While I love her idea that she'd charge ex-boyfriends $10 to send her email, I think AOL, Google, and Yahoo! et al need to concentrate on cancelling the accounts of known spammers and phishers instead of charging the rest of us for sending email.
About BL Ochman B.L. Ochman, Managing Director of Emerging Media for Proof Intergrated Communications, the digital marketing arm of Burson-Marsteller, has been helping Fortune 500 companies strategically incorporate new media into their marketing mix since 1996.