AOL Won't Budge on Email Tax

deman1985 writes "InformationWeek reports that AOL has no intentions to budge on its use of certified email. The company today released a statement apparently in response to the vast amounts of criticism over the past week from consumers and various organizations. From the article: 'We believe more choices, and more alternatives, for safety and e-mail authentication is a good thing for the Internet, not bad,' said an AOL spokesman. 'Everything that AOL has in place today free for e-mail senders remains -- and will only improve.' The programs critics aren't so optimistic, but that doesn't seem to be hampering the company's plans. In a quote that could only be labeled short and sweet, AOL announced, 'Implementation of this timely and necessary safety and security measure for our members takes place in the next 30 days. Mark it on your calendars.'"

Comments

Swaths

[Krach42]

'Implementation of this timely and necessary safety and security measure for our members takes place in the next 30 days. Mark it on your calendars.'

That's a pretty large swath of my calender... someone got another highlighter? Mine wore out around March 14th.

Typical AOL Product Manager Reaction

[Anonymous Coward]

Just the sort of carry on regardless my experience with AOL product managers leads me to expect.

Cha-ching.

[glass_window]

What do you expect from a company that can't figure out how else to make money besides raising dialup costs?

Manager-speak

[repetty]

>> "Mark it on your calendars."

Wow. That a classic example of manager-spreak. Lord, help them, they're being managed. You can bet the farm on that.

Short and /sweet/?

[saskboy]

"In a quote that could only be labeled short and sweet"

"GO FUCK YOURSELF AOL" is also short and to the point, but far from sweet.

Have your cake and eat it too

[ROOK*CA]

And in other news AOL announced a new subscription service for it's members, for an additional $5.95 a month members can enable the AOL goodmail filter service on their mailboxes which will block out all emails from senders that have signed up for AOLs "certified sender" list. :)

Re:It's a Company, folks

[ConceptJunkie]

I'm still in a diaper, you insensitive clod!

Re:Whatever

[flatass]

Especially if it is sent to a PO Box.

Re:might seem a little aloof

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah and their CDs suck as frisbees! Definitely not cutting edge!

I don't know about you, but I definitely wouldn't want to play if the frisbee has a cutting edge.

Re:might seem a little aloof

[pilgrim23]

The other day I was cleaning out junk and came across an old AOL disk I had kept. I should mention I am into retro-computers, and, THIS AOL coaster was a 5.25 floppy in ProDOS format. It is for AOL on the Apple II.
    I was considering slapping my Micromodem ][ back in the //e, stuffing this beauty into the DuoDisk drive, and at a blazing 300baud dial up my local AOL access number and start spewing my email tax's worth of SPAM at all the other members..
  I would probably generate them about as fast as common sense takes to get to AOL Corporate HQ....