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While I agree that this is a rather bad plan for end users,
I will say this
-
to sort of play devils advocate - anyone who remembers CB
(Citizen Band
Radio) back with the FCC regulated it and you had to be
licensed likely
noticed a huge difference when the FCC deregulated it.
The entire theory is that anyone who has the money,
resources, and reason to
pay the fees isn't going to abuse the privledge. Add to
that, these emails
(you can bet) must likely meet some rules - I would not be
surprised if they
must meet rules such as unsubscribe features that work, real
email addresses
in from/to dialogs, and some kind of tracking system in
place so if a
company
DOES something abusive with their emails it can be tracked
back to who did
it.
The problem that spam is today is huge - I mean, we all know
that, I'm not
saying it isn't a huge problem. What I am saying is that it
may not be as
bad as one might think, it could be that bad certainly, but
it makes sense
for Yahoo and AOL to not dump too much spam into users
inboxes that bypasses
the spam filters. Users of Yahoo or AOL could easily simply
get an gmail
invite (anyone wants one I have lots) or sign up to a lot of
other services
to get mail without this bypassing. It also looks back in
PR for them if
users inboxes are still full with lots of spam as most users
wouldn't notice
the fact that messages are designed to bypass the spam
filters.
In addition, I know personally that companies sending me
automated messages
for say signing up to an online site are often miss-caught
by gmail's spam
filter and I have to go digging around in the spam box to
find it. This
kind
of thing would allow companies that want to make sure their
messages go
through to the end user to pay to have it done. Although it
may increase
end
cost, is it worth it in that case to have things delivered
that you really
want?
I don't know... I know that I haven't used my yahoo mail in
years and don't
even have an AOL account. Just playing devils advocate and
thinking of how
it might be a good thing in some ways.
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From: PGP-Basics@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:PGP-Basics@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of John W. Moore III
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 4:52 AM
To: PGP-Basics@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Yahoo, AOL: Sending spam is ok--for a fee.
Correct, the basic premise is that Enterprises who wish to
guarantee that
their Email *is* delivered to the Customer's Inbox will pay
to bypass
'Filters.' (presumably with the 'cost' relayed in higher
service
fees) The theory is that Spammers will *not* pay for their
message to 'get
through'.
Apparently several large Businesses have already shown an
interest by
'signing up'. You & I will not 'really notice' unless
one counts the
increased 'cost' of doing business with these Company's.
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