this was reported on slashdot, too.
one could easily miss this news as it appears to be that old internet hoax
about email postage. well, a little checking around shows its not a hoax,
and April 1 is a couple months away.
so instead of just having the choice of either being inundated with spam or
never receiving an email addressed to 3 or more recipients, you can pay to
have 'superior spam filters'. i dont think AOL will handle this
gracefully...their solutions always scare me!
i can imagine the debate here on spam.
kip
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod Engelsman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:03 AM
Subject: [social] E-mail postage debate
Remember that debate (argument... fight... whatever) that transpired on
discuss some time back about spam? Well, it turns out that AOL and Yahoo
are planning to implement a kind of premium email service:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/05AOL.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th
--
Rod
