email: add note about Seth Godin's podcast about paid stamps

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diff --git a/email.bib b/email.bib
index bf45cd0..fdfecb3 100644
--- a/email.bib
+++ b/email.bib
@@ -23,4 +23,11 @@
   title = {Daniel J. Bernstein's IM2000 email proposal is not a good idea},
   year = {2020},
   url = {https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/IM2000NotGoodIdea},
+}
+                  
+@post{godinstamps,
+  author = {Seth Godin},
+  title = {Paying for stamps},
+  year = {2020},
+  url = {https://overcast.fm/+L0YXXVXfY},
 }
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diff --git a/rethinking-email.md b/rethinking-email.md
index 4fb7e1e..e274a69 100644
--- a/rethinking-email.md
+++ b/rethinking-email.md
@@ -190,7 +190,14 @@ The scam problem can be stated as follows:
 
 The idea for stamps comes to me from [@fedispam], who seems to have
 gotten it from Christopher Lemmer Webber and Taler, and who knows where
-it originated from.
+it originated from. 
+
+[@godinstamps] also discusses his idea of paid stamps for email,
+originally from late 1980s or early 1990s, with the idea that low
+volumes are free, but after that you pay a "penny" per email. I'm not
+really happy with the exact solution suggested, as it doesn't provide
+the recipient from a way to avoid unsolicited junk from arriving, but
+the podcast is part of a discussion.
 
 
 ## Digital identities