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[guardian.co.uk...]
"The last time I checked, the postal service has a very similar system to provide different options," Nicholas Graham, an AOL spokesman, told the New York Times...Messages from subscribers to AOL's paid-for service would be delivered directly to AOL mailboxes. Messages from senders who have not paid will be treated as suspicious and sent to a spam folder
A cynical person might wonder where all the spam has come from that would justify these web behemoths collecting hundreds of millions in etherial postage.
WBF