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AOL to Charge Senders for Incoming Email
pdclarry writes "AOL announced on January 30 that it will phase out its Enhanced Whitelist service in June in favour of Goodmail CertifiedEmail, which carries an as yet unspecified per-message fee. Until now, a mailing list gets on the AOL whitelist by following good e-mail practices, such as cleaning up dead addresses, making it easy for people to leave mailing lists, and of course not sending any spam. This is all going to be thrown out the window and replaced with the payment of hard currency to Goodmail. People who can afford to pay this fee will have the privilege of reaching AOL subscribers, others will end up in junk folders. Yahoo is expected to follow down the same path."
I thought it was bad enough to run across businesses using hotmale addresses. They should be ashamed of themselves!
Hotmale? As in Jude Law? Dude, i'd pay anything to recieve his white man-mail, if you know what i'm saying!
you mean (gasp!) you want to turn what i said into like a new slashdot MEAN!?!?!? OMGOMGOMG :D i don't think it will catch on but i am terribly honoured sir!
It's about time somebody started charging bulk emailers a small fee per email received. Until we start charging all bulk emailers, we're never going to end spam.
-Esme