> Even if 1 in 12 people operated a business, they wouldn't be able to > send an email to every person in the US on every day, certainly not > on a 56K dialup, or residential service line. Why do you think the bulk sends would happen over dialup? There are already plenty of spam-for-hire outfits who will happily spam for you. I get spam advertising them nearly every day. > The IRS reports that there were 5.7 million firms with employees. > The vast majority are 1 employee owner/operator firms, with > essentially residential internet service. Even if you assume sole proprietorships won't spam, that's only a reduction by a factor of four. That only brings you down to 1840 messages/day/mailbox, which is still 100 times more than most people would be willing to deal with. - Bill