AOL and Yahoo put price on e-mail

[news=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=Fd_tZssdyTQJ&imgurl=www.addict3d.org/img/9a29946a9c9b6b8c.jpg]Companies will soon have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be delivered to many of their customers.

America Online and Yahoo, two of the world's largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay from a quarter of a cent to 1 cent each to have them delivered. The Internet companies say this will help them identify legitimate mail and cut down on junk e-mail, identity-theft scams and other scourges of users of their services.

:source: Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/...ness/email.php[/news]

I heard about this a very long time ago. It was a hoax.

Legitimate mail. sure just more money.

And like business use that shitty aol mail. :lol:

they have their own mail servers. :lol:

I like gmail, all the way. Its just organized very good & its free with 2600MB+

This is just silly...

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And like business use that shitty aol mail. :lol:

they have their own mail servers. :lol:

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Exactly.

It's being reported by the BBC too now. :unsure:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4684942.stm

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Originally Posted by twisterX

And like business use that shitty aol mail. :lol:

they have their own mail servers. :lol:

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Exactly.

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firms might start using these services because it will make phishing harder. This also has nothing to do with other companies mail servers. They can either pay a fee for their email to be authenticated and deliverd or thrown in a bulk mail folder.

would this not make sense for say a bank, ebay or paypal to use to cut fraud ?

The problem is it will need to be widely accepted both senders and receivers or its just gonna fall flat on its arse.

I really dont see anyway this is actually gonna stop spam though.

Update : http://news.zdnet.com/Stamp+of+appro...&subj=technews

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Originally Posted by Filliz

Exactly.

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firms might start using these services because it will make phishing harder. This also has nothing to do with other companies mail servers. They can either pay a fee for their email to be authenticated and deliverd or thrown in a bulk mail folder.

would this not make sense for say a bank, ebay or paypal to use to cut fraud ?

The problem is it will need to be widely accepted both senders and receivers or its just gonna fall flat on its arse.

I really dont see anyway this is actually gonna stop spam though.

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i relize what you are saying and companies WILL NOT pay. :happy:

so little aol and yahoo can go a fuck off. :01:

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Originally Posted by twisterX

Legitimate mail. sure just more money.

And like business use that shitty aol mail. :lol:

they have their own mail servers. :lol:

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I was waiting for somthing like this to happen, being charged for emails, it's jus a matter of time. Think about it, we get charged for sending text messages on our phones. Having said that, we pay for our ISP's so I guess it is out of order.

so what your saying is that if we don't pay for our mail to be sent then there is no guarantee that the mail will be sent?? i guess we will be looking forward to having the same email sent twice

Sounds a bit like Royal mail first class stamp mail service!
First class but not guaranteed to arrive the next day,
A item has to be sent special delivery now for first class

It would not surprise me if AOL did do a stunt like this,
but like said, just a hoax

time to send out gmail invites to all my yahoo and aol friends

AOL Offers Olive Branch to Non-Profits :

http://www.betanews.com/article/AOL_...its/1141415901

This is realy nothing more than AOL already offers to it's members
And it's just the same old plot to get AOL mentioned, a cheap way of getting publicity.
If you are a AOL member & use their software just click in Marketing preferences no I do not wish to receive

I remember a couple of years ago the battle between AOL & Microsoft,
It came to the stage where AOL operators could not even talk about the issues with Microsoft & outlook etc ~ AOL at the time was blocking ports so AOL members could only use AOL software for sending mail.
In the last two years AOL have became a good ISP and opened the doors to how it should be.
The issues with mail still go on and I just cant see why AOL are so infatuated in this part of the market.
the spam controlls of AOL became a big mess last year, and legal action was taken.
But now all sorted, not a problem to report.

Well it certainty is a great advert for Thunderbird email client no ? I see little spam in my email myself but in a working environment it can be very time consuming ,shfting thru B.S. to get to the stuff that matters .