Is that it's former EFF chair vs. EFF staffer, which is not actually all that surprising since we debate many issues internally all the time. Yes, Esther has been for these from the start.

I was for them in the sense of taking my first stabs at anti-spam as an engineering problem, I thought about these. When I thought more about the other consequences I decided they were a poor idea. It seems every month or so I see somebody come forward with the "original" idea of charging for e-mail to stop spam. (Even when I first proposed it a decade ago, others had already thought of it.)

The appeal is obvious, it would indeed impede spam. The question is, literally and figuratively, at what cost?