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March 02, 2006

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Bill Fitzgerald

AOL email tax?

I've seen some blog posts about this, and it has some potentially disturbing implications -- 

It looks like AOL (and, to a lesser extent, Yahoo!) have been advocating letting people pay to bypass spam filters in order to "guarantee" that email gets delivered.

For a google search on the topic; also, moveon.org has started a campaign about it.

I'd be curious to hear what folks have to say about this.

Bill

Keywords: aol, email tax, free internet

Posted by Bill Fitzgerald

Comments

  1. Sounds like reverse racketeering. For a price, we won't protect against you.

    Mark PennyMark Penny on Friday, 03 March 2006, 00:44 CET # |

  2. It just illustrates that AOL don't understand the Internet. They'll recant shortly, I think - either that or the annoyance of having legitimate mail filtered to the spam folder will drive the rest of their users away. Either way, I'm not worried.

    Ben WerdmullerBen Werdmuller on Friday, 03 March 2006, 10:38 CET # |

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