http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7002590984
"Plans by America Online and Yahoo to charge a bulk e-mailing fee are being met with opposition by a diverse alliance of interest groups that feel the fee is unfair.
Their new e-mailing fee would charge businesses and other bulk e-mailers a fee to route their e-mail directly to a user's mailbox without first passing through junk mail filters.
E-mail senders that pay the fee will be guaranteed their messages will not be filtered and will bear a seal alerting recipients that they're legitimate."
"MoveOn estimates that 400,000 people of the 3 million on its electronic mailing list are AOL subscribers, meaning that sending a mass e-mail could cost $1,000 to $4,000. RightMarch says it sends about 3 million e-mails a week, with about one-third going to AOL or Yahoo addresses."
More attempts at the biggest bastards on the internet trying to grab more money, and totally fucking over the user. Top Job!
Rather than being 'unfair' or whatever, isn't the bigger problem that spammers might actually pay that fee?
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Ha. Spammers don't pay for shit.
It's not even the "biggest bastards", it's just a random company which offers the service that if you pay them, they tell others that you've paid them.
Gotta admit, it's quite the awesome scam.