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Yahoo To Try To Charge For POP3 Services

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-less-address-to-block dept.

NetSerf2000 writes: "I just saw an article on the Register that Yahoo is giving users of it's email service until the 24th of April to make a decision about forking out $19.99 for the first year. Yahoo states that this is so it can 'improve' service quality and 'reduce" spam.' The report says that it's the mailing forwarding and POP3 services, so I'm not sure that it affects the Webmail service; if it reduces the spam coming out of Yahoo!, that'd be one less domain I have to filter into "Spam," which would be nice.

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  1. Re:It's pretty fair... by rixster · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pay not to see adverts ? That'll never take off. ... err. oh dear.

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  2. Re:It's pretty fair... by Chundra · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have an idea for the slashdot editors and their zany paying-not-to-see-ads scheme. Why not randomly post large pictures of Mr. Goatse.cx? I would pay to not see that.

  3. Re:Yahoo mail announcement by The_Systech · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah I got this mail too, but the best part was that it was delivered to my Yahoo! Bulk Mail folder... So even they classify their own mail as Spam :)

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