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AOL to Charge Senders for Incoming Email

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the virtual-postage dept.

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."

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  1. ANAL HURTS MORE THAN FACIAL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    # I'M A COMMENT // I'M A COMMENT TOO /* WE NEVER LANDED ON THE MOON */

    (* THE HOLOCAUST WAS FAKED *)

    <!-- ANAL HURTS MORE THAN FACIAL -->

    REM THE GOVERNMENT IS RUN BY REPTILIAN ALIENS

    ' THE 9/11 ATTACKS WERE A TRICK TO TAKE AWAY OUR LIBERTIES

    ; ALIENS CREATED THE PYRAMIDS NOT THE EGYPTIANS

    ~ HITLER'S CLONES ARE ALIVE AND WELL IN COLD STORAGE IN BAVARIA

    o< SEE AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER I JUST PUT MY CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN
          COMMENTS IN THE CODE I'M WRITING AS WORK FOR HIRE !!! THAT WAY
          THEY WILL NEVER DIE

          BY THE WAY THE LAST COMMENT IS FOR LOGO !!!!

          REPEAT 4 [FORWARD 10 FUCK OFF]