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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."

3 of 264 comments (clear)

  1. most reliable spam filter ever: by wpegden · · Score: 5, Funny

    trash "certified" email.

  2. Da' Mafia! by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Funny

    Say, dat's a nice email message you got there. It would be a shame if some spam filter caught it. ;)

  3. Yeah, like 1/4cent is a lot to a Nigerian Prince! by The_REAL_DZA · · Score: 5, Funny

    He probably spends more than that in a day on hotdogs and beer!

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