Word: senders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...securities analyst on Wall Street, Dyson possesses an impressive amount of practical experience with which to substantiate her conceptions. One of the most innovative suggestions she makes concerns the mass mailings of junk e-mail sent through the Net. Her plan to curb this "spamming" involves the use of "sender-pays" e-mail, wherein the recipient would be able to charge the sender before accepting the mail (or to forgive the fee, so that access is not restricted to the wealthy alone). Here Dyson's "love [of] markets" reveals itself yet again: her descriptions of global agencies and investor/consumer protection...
WASHINGTON: Having reconciled their own versions of the tax bill, Republicans are now headed for the White House with a compromise that looks to have "Return To Sender" scrawled all over it. But TIME's John Dickerson reports it's too early to tell if Republicans are setting themselves up for a veto. "Clinton has said he will veto any provision that requires an indexing of capital gains, but they've got a lot of negotiations to do. The Republicans are deliberately throwing out proposals that are on the extreme edge of what they want so they will have some...
There is a truly new etiquette rule on the books, especially for mobile phones, although even it has a historic precedent. In the old postal system, which charged the recipient rather than the sender, the polite letter writer was supposed to be reasonably sure the communication would be welcome and to compress the missive so as to keep the cost down. Now the polite telephoner is obligated to restrict the number and length of calls to mobile users, knowing the recipient incurs costs...
RETURN TO SENDER...
...sort all forms of digital clutter, including E-mail. Joe's a bore, so relegate his notes to the bottom of the list. Shoot to the top anything from the boss. Primitive versions, called bozo filters, are already available to help deflect some of the more predictable detritus by sender and topic...