The old internet rumor that the US Post Office was going to start charging postage for email looks more and more likely everyday - sort of. It won't be the USPS charging the fee - it'll be the ISPs.

US internet service providers are coming round to the idea that they may have to start levying "postage" fees on those who send out huge amounts of commercial e-mail, because anti-spam filters have failed to keep down the growth of junk e-mail.

I suppose this could work - but I think it'll be alot more difficult than the article makes it out to be. If everybody used their ISP to send email, it might be manageable. But when you've got your ISP, free accounts, domain name mail servers etc - and then you throw in the spoofing of IPs and domains, I think this will prove to be a huge headache to enact.

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