AOL & Yahoo E-mail Tax
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Dan

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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject: AOL & Yahoo E-mail Tax |
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AOL & Yahoo E-mail Tax aka how to desotry free speah and spam your inbox in one move.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004398.php
Basickly AOL and Yahoo are working on a deal with "Goodmail" witch baiskly says comapnys can pay them to put there e-mails at the top of your inbox and greaty that they will get there (i.e. no spam fillters will stop it).
AOL and Yahoo claim that this system will acuatly stop spam thinking that if they can not do it for free they will stop. With this reasoning it is likey that they will futher the systems so if u do not pay you will have a hard time contecting any one at there e-mail serivces.
This is not unlike the idea that M$ had where all e-mail should have an speashl M$ idfecation other wise it should not get to any one at hotmail or who ever they can make deals with excpect in this case u whould be paying per e-mail.
I think this an intrersing topic in the terms of freedom of speah and spam. Basiclky with the e-mail system as it is a free for all of free speah we see 1000s of peoleop abousing it with each day tho for the most part it is talrable with a good spam filliter. (personaly i get over 100 spam e-mails per day). Is this AOL plan the right thing to do? Perosanly i blive it is not, once again it seems like the ritch get more rights and the pooe get fewer. I blive if this goses threw noraml every day peoleop will be faced with paying money per e-mail and that the big ritch spamers will be flooding your mail with unstopable spam e-mail.
Tho in the long run this could be good for the smaller and newers e-mail services who still blive in freedom of speah and free mail. |
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Amailer

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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:18 pm Post subject: (No subject) |
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Uh, Im slow. Can you explain to me how exactally they are trying to stop spam? And how does paying $0.025 help?  |
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Dan

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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: (No subject) |
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They blive that by making peoleop it will cost to much for the spamers to spam. I mean if u had to pay for every e-mail whould you send out 10000000 of spam e-mails per day?
That is the theroy any how, the reality is that yes you whould pay that if it got you threw the door and u a earning money for each person that gose to your site and that it is the normaly peoleop who will be hurt not the spamers. |
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md

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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:17 am Post subject: (No subject) |
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you don't need to pay to get your email, or pay to send any. However if you do pay then any email you send will be passed by the spam filters without getting processed. The idea is that companies can do this to prevent their emails from getting list. Not a bad plan were it not coupled with the making money part. |
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Martin

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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:37 am Post subject: (No subject) |
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Email's not free because people are nice. Email is free because there's too much competition.
The original model for email was charge for email. Let's face it - email is convenient, useful and people would pay for it if they had to.
But there's the problem. Everyone wants email. So it starts out like this - "Hey, let's charge $1 a message. It's cheaper than snail mail, so people will buy it." Even though the email costs them less than a cent to send, people would still pay $1/message if they had no other problems.
The competition comes along and says "This costs us less than a cent to send, so let's charge our users $0.25/message." "$0.10" "Okay, let's give them free email so they come to our site and view our advertisements." And that's where we are today.
Normally, a company is like "Hey, we have a nicer product than the competition, so pay a bit more for it." Here, it was the reverse "Hey, we have a better product than the competition, and it's cheaper!"
Guaranteed email isn't the way to go about this, and what'll happen is:
1. Some phisher will think "Hey, if I pay $1000 I can get into a guaranteed 400,000 inboxes. If I get even one account I've made a profit." If the system is popular, this could go right under the radar.
2. Legitimate spam companies (such as people who want to sell you a real product, but think that filling your inbox up with their flyers is the way to do it) will abuse it, leaving people dissatisfied with the service and migrating to other email providers. |
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md

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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:01 am Post subject: (No subject) |
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At least one spam company has already tried to sign up for this and been told to go away. It seems that keeping spammers from using this is at least being attempted. |
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