What is the cost of an ordinary email?

Question

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Answer 1

Email is free. Unless you want mega storage or something and then yahoo is priced very cheap.

Answer 2

To examine the costs of an email, one needs to consider all the components that cause that email to come into existence until the time it is permanently discharged from memory. First there is the manpower it took to type the email. While it may not seem like a cost, it must be considered so b/c something was given up to allow it to happen (in this case, the sender typed the email instead of say, thinking about what to have for dinner). The hardware is the medium of transmission, and the cost could be determined by depreciating the cost per kilobyte of the machines, lines, routers, servers, and systems that the data flowed through. Then of course there is the cost of the reader choosing to read the email, which works the same as with the sender (lost opportunity costs, which might not seem tangible but are very real in the grand scope of economics). Then there is the cost of archival. This depends on how and how long the message is stored, and if it is forwarded, one would have to consider whether to add the continuing cost of this same email floating around cyberspace eating up memory and bandwidth, or to consider those costs seperately.

I am sure that this is only a small part of everything that needs to be considered to determine the cost of an ordinary email. To be honest, a figure could be derived, but it would probably cost taxpayers thousands of dollars to fund a think tank that would take years to come up with the answer, and by the time the answer would be obsolete...

but i'd take the job...

Answer 3

If you are using a free internet account, the obvious answer to the monetary cost of an e-mail is zero.

BUT, you are paying for the electricity and maintinace of the computer is using (no matter WHO's computer you use, wither through taxes, student fees, or your own pocket.)

The router's along the e-mails route need elctricty and maintaince too, but those are owned by private companies or non-profits.

Ditto the server that stores the e-mail until it is downloaded to your computer or deleted from the server.

So yes there is a cost to e-mail, but know one really knows how much that e-mail costs. Not much, certainly, but it isn't zero.

There is a pretty coherent answer mid-way down this article. http://www.webservertalk.com/message437416.html

Answer 4

What do you mean by "cost"?When you send a Email you don't pay anything for sending ti except (depending on you'r Internet connection) the time spent on the internet or the download/upload size you downloaded/uploaded!There is no web service or program that charges sending emails!

Answer 5

Most email services are free like yahoo, gmail, hotmail, aol mail,

Answer 6

sending and email...cost is zero...apart from the expense that you incurre to go online...or to use internet.
its not like a snail mail their is no stamp required.
I hope u satisfied with the answer...

Answer 7

it should be free.

Answer 8

nothing.

Answer 9

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