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Centmail - pay 1 cent per sent email from yahoo... would you use it ?

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It depends--do I receive 1 cent per email received at yahoo?

In all seriousness, the micropayments concept has been floated long ago as a spam-fighting measure; the first problem is that just about every provider has to do it before it becomes useful enough to warrant the cost--which incurs a large first-mover penalty.

Exactly, and given the relative success of spam filters such as gmail's, the market would strongly shift away from anyone who charged.

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