Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Feb 2006 18:24 UTC, submitted by sean batten
AOL and Yahoo! are to start charging for sending emails. Both companies will still accept free emails but are offering the chance to pay to avoid their spam filters. By paying between a quarter and one cent per message companies will get preferential delivery of their messages. So a "business class" email will go straight to an AOL-subscriber's inbox marked with a stamp saying "AOL Certified Email" while a free email will have to run the gamut of AOL spam filters. Free mails may also have images and web links removed.
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RE[3]: This is why I use gmail...
by Vonskippy on Mon 6th Feb 2006 19:54
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RE[4]: This is why I use gmail...
by mini-me on Mon 6th Feb 2006 21:49
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Your own mail server might not help in this case. The mail you're go to be paying for is to by pass Yahoo and AOL's filters into their own mail box.
They can still filter out any of your mail you send to them from non-AOL/Yahoo accounts and in many cases if you're on a dynamic IP address that the mail server is sent from and the mail server that takes delivery uses SORBS etc or the reverse DNS doens't match IP's DNS (domain name for example) and causes an invalid Sender-ID, then you message might never get to who you've sent to them to anyway.