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AOL and Yahoo put price on e-mail |
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Written by Kacey Green
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Sunday, 05 February 2006 |
 International Herald Tribune Reports : 2/5
Companies will soon have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be delivered to many of their customers.
America Online and Yahoo, two of the world's largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay from a quarter of a cent to 1 cent each to have them delivered. The Internet companies say this will help them identify legitimate mail and cut down on junk e-mail, identity-theft scams and other scourges of users of their services.
The two companies also stand to earn millions of dollars a year from the system if it is widely adopted. [...]
But critics of the plan say the companies risk alienating both their users and the companies that send e-mail. The system will apply not only to mass mailings but also to individual messages like order confirmations from online stores and customized low-fare notices from airlines.
Richi Jennings, an analyst at Ferris Research, which specializes in e-mail, said, "AOL users will become dissatisfied when they don't receive the e-mail that they want, and when they complain to the senders, they'll be told, 'It's AOL's fault."'
As for companies that send e-mail, "some will pay, but others will object to being held to ransom," she said. "A big danger is that one of them will be big enough to encourage AOL users to use a different e-mail service."
This is despicable all a spammer has to do to get a fast track to your inbox is pay your email provider; bribery is never acceptable in politics or services. Lets voice our opinions before this gains acceptance. Say no to the stamp tax.
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