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AOL and Yahoo to Offer Filter Circumvention

Posted by Zonk on from the thank-you-for-thinking-of-me dept.

tiltowait wrote to mention a report on MSNBC's site stating that AOL and Yahoo are both planning to introduce a for-pay way to circumvent their spam filters. From the article: "The fees, which would range from 1/4 cent to 1 cent per e-mail, are the latest attempts by the companies to weed out unsolicited ads, commonly called spam, and identity-theft scams. In exchange for paying, e-mail senders will be guaranteed their messages won't be filtered and will bear a seal alerting recipients they're legitimate."

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  1. Re:slashdot morons by mosch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Let me phrase this differently:

    AOL and Yahoo sell mail service. That service is supposed to allow reasonably reliable delivery of the mail that people want.

    In the course of fighting spam, AOL and Yahoo have become incompetent, and started nixing opt-in marketing messages.

    They decided that the most profitable way to solve this would be to charge senders to allow mail that never should've been blocked in the first place.

    I have a lot of trouble seeing this in a positive light. To me it seem like Yahoo/AOL is simply monitizing their incompetance.