AOL and Yahoo introduce postage for emails.

[jecasc]

America Online and Yahoo, two of the world's largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using a controversial system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay from 1/4 of a cent to a penny each to have them delivered.

[nytimes.com...]

[vincevincevince]

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That would make me pick a new email service if I saw it as a Yahoo or AOL user... I wonder what that would do to Yahoo and AOL's bottom line.