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easycash
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Joined: 20 Oct 2005
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Location: Brisbane
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 Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:49 pm
Post subject : Yahoo, AOL plan priority pay mail |
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Found this story on news.com.au today
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COMPANIES will reportedly have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their email will be delivered to many of their customers.
The New York Times said America Online and Yahoo, two of the world's largest providers of email accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay up to US1c each to have them delivered.
The senders must promise to contact only people who have agreed to receive their messages, or risk being blocked entirely, the report said.
The internet companies say that this will help them identify legitimate mail and cut down on junk email, identity-theft scams and other scourges that plague users of their services, the newspaper reported.
They also stand to earn millions of dollars a year from the system if it is widely adopted.
AOL and Yahoo will still accept email from senders who have not paid, but the paid messages will be given special treatment, the paper said.
On AOL, for example, they will go straight to users' main mailboxes, and will not have to pass the gauntlet of spam filters that could divert them to a junk-mail folder or strip them of images and web links.
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So does this mean that they are saying "YES it's ok to spam our members and clients" as long as you pay US for doing so ?
On the other side, I can see a lot of businesses just banning Yahoo and AOL email addresses.
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ratty
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Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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Location: Brisbane
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:48 pm
Post subject : Re: Yahoo, AOL plan priority pay mail |
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As a person who spends alot of time at my computer i send anywhere from 10 to 50 emails a day if this was to happen here in OZ it would cut me down on alot of my work and pay studys and in general affect social aspect for many people.....
on the flip side i do see the company's side of trying to stop identity theft and reduce spam and junk mail my a huge amount
over all i think people my start going back to snail mail even tho more expensive its more easier for the technologicly impared who jsut barely know how to send emails
so in conclusion i had to vote bad |
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Marci
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Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:46 am
Post subject : Re: Yahoo, AOL plan priority pay mail |
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| Somehow I'm not suprised. Next thing will be ... all companies will start charging for emails sent. I'm sure that would get rid of heaps of spam. They gave us free emailing and as soon as we're hooked on it, we'll have to start paying. Financialy a good move for them. |
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