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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.'"
I really hope, AOL will charge those non-profit organisations the same as other businesses. Why should televangelists, corrupt political parties or other assorted whiny do-gooder have it easier to get to me? If a company tries to sell used condoms or recycled viagra, at least it tries to be productive.
aol users' whitelists will have very little effect on this. A lot of email to aol is blocked before it actually reaches a user's email account (and all the settings associated with it). an example is stated earlier in these posts, which is that AOL has a certain unannounced threshold, that if a particular domain sends a certain number of emails to them within a certain amount of time, they automatically get blocked for a certain amount of time. No user whitelist will have any effect on this as the emails are blocked too early on their route. companies that pay aol will probably be able to bypass such restrictions.