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Begin forwarded message:
From: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
Date: January 24, 2007 1:10:34 AM PST
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Politech] AOL's email "tax" and how it affects small
mailing lists [sp]
Here's a discussion we had last February:
http://www.politechbot.com/2006/02/09/goodmail-and-politech/
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Subject: Is AOL engaged in extortion?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:19:36 -0700
From: Mark Saks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Declan--
Don't know if this is appropriate for Politech, but here it is:
I have not seen this discussed much, but I run a small community
mailing
list - only about 200 recipients, 40 on AOL -and AOL has dubbed me
as a
spammer, even though the only people I send to on AOL are those who
want to
get the community announcements I send. Apparently this is a common
problem.
While the solution is for those recipients to get another email,
for some
strange reason they seem reluctant to do so. But that is another
issue.
Then I found the website http://www.dearaol.com where 500
organizations and
individuals are protesting AOL's new email "tax." It seems that if
you pay
them enough money, they will let you bypass their spam filters. In
other
words, their subscribers are prevented from getting the mail they
want, but
those who are willing to pay can spam them.
Seems like extortion and racketeering to me, but I'm not an
attorney. Anyone
here think they might be prosecuted under the R.I.C.O. statutes??
Does
anyone know anything further on this? Maybe it just needs to have
the light
of day shed on it on some national TV show to embarrass them enough.
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Mark Saks, Tucson AZ
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