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Yahoo Revives Pay-Per-Email, With Charitable Twist

Posted by timothy on from the penny-post-sans-post dept.

holy_calamity writes "Yahoo research have started a private beta of a scheme that resurrects the idea of charging people to send email to cut spam. Centmail users pay $0.01 for each message they send, with the money going to a charity of their choice. The hope is that the feel good effect of donating to charity will reduce the perceived cost of paying for mail and encourage mass adoption, making it possible for mail filters to build in recognition of Centmail stamps."

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  1. Re:How Exactly Does This Fight Spam? by causality · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Another marked troll? Seriously. Yahoo does have mod points today...

    That does seem to be the most trendy form of asshattery on Slashdot lately, to just indiscriminately mod down every top-level post that you can as "Troll". There do seem to be enough of them in this discussion that it would take more than one jackass moderator to pull off.

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  2. Re:How Exactly Does This Fight Spam? by DShard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Last time I had moderator points, it was 15. But then again /. also blocks ads for me for all my dedication to there site.

  3. Re:(almost) spam-free by RockDoctor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd like to start by not getting any foreign email.

    & # 1058;& # 1077; & # 1088;& # 1072;& # 1073;& # 1086;& # 1090;& # 1077;& # 1090; & # 1086;& # 1076;& # 1080;& # 1085; & # 1091;& # 1079;& # 1080;& # 1082;? (thank you, SlashCode's inability to handle most characters) Only one? and you only work in that one language. How quaint. It must be nice being able to ignore the other 60%-plus of the world and your potential trade.

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