heyubob now changed the subject to a political one!
Namely: the almighty dollar talks, why the big SPAMMERS like
other mass
marketers get their way in D C, why the system has turned
our elected
representatives into whores, why our two-party system cannot
work
anymore, why this old man - me, has given up all hopes for
my children
and grands, why - - - -
Samples:
Trace where phonecalls originated from,
but no tracing where VIRUSES originated from!
Opt out of unsolicited phone calls, but
not 800 subscribers (mass marketers) and
not political calls!
So to be real cynical about it all?
Is it the will of The Almighty or the almighty dollar?
Oh well - - -
Tork
heyubob wrote:
Great, one more clever person has discovered a way to charge for
something they (isps like aol), could and should stop, on their own.
It seem that it would be impossible to tell who is generating all of
the spam, but someone has to cover the initial bottom-line (who paid
the bill?). If the N.S.A. can find out who's looking at porn, ya
think a few spammers could be found, and at least slowed down. You
should not have to pay (even more) for people and or companies to do
the right thing.
kipster wrote:
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
