Re: [anti-spam-wg] AOL, Yahoo to start charging for the ability to pass mail filters

[Walter Ian Kaye walter@localhost]

At 12:57p +0100 02/06/2006, Mally Mclane didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

> AOL to charge fee as way to cut spam
> By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY
> SAN FRANCISCO . America Online will begin charging businesses to 
> send commercial e-mail to its users in the first wide-scale use of 
> authenticated e-mail to reduce spam. But some marketers affected by 
> the plan, set to start in several weeks, call it e-mail taxation 
> designed to create a new stream of revenue for AOL.
> The certified e-mail system would require advertisers to pay $2 to 
> $3 per 1,000 messages. The plan is optional, though AOL and its tech 
> partner, Goodmail Systems, cannot guarantee that all non-certified 
> e-mail with Web links and images will be delivered.

AOL restricting multipart mail? Even though some of their own 
software is incapable of sending plain text? Gee.

> E-mail of approved companies will come with digital tokens 
> recognized by AOL security defenses.

Unjoejobable tokens? :-)