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Originally Posted by crackp0t
It also costs the sender to send email. Servers, bandwidth, domain, etc aren't free. Postal junk mail costs everyone as well. It costs money to for the sender to send it and it costs the tax payers money to have it delivered.
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Actually no it doesn't. It costs me nothing to go check my mailbox at the curb. You do realize the USPS turns a profit right? Doesn't cost the taxpayers anything. It only costs the sender money to send it. However when you send me spam mail it costs me bandwidth to download that mail, disk space to store it, and processor time to sort it. Then more bandwidth and processor time for the user to download and view it off my server. All that money wasted for V1AGR4!!
What if someone flooded your physical mailbox with 10,000 pieces of junk mail every minute and whether you wanted it or not you had to pay $0.01 for every piece delivered to you? You'd be pretty pissed and scream for the government to ban unsolicited commercial mail.