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Postage is going up

AOL/Yahoo to charge for Email

         

willybfriendly

8:24 am on Feb 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

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AOL and Yahoo have announced plans to charge for emails. Senders will be able to pay 1/4 to one cent per email message to insure that it gets by the spam filters.

[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

jecasc

11:36 am on Feb 6, 2006 (gmt 0)