AOL and Yahoo to make non-paid mail second class

Created by Mark Palmer (Concordia University Texas) on February 9, 2006

Over the last six months information has been leaked that AOL and Yahoo will soon require bulk mailers (like stores, spammers, and universities) to become "certified" and pay "postage" for every piece of email received. In fact, on 1-FEB they announced a date when their old "whitelist" process would terminate and they would be using a service called Goodmail to filter their inbound email (and collect the fee as part of the processing). They quickly assured the individual user that this new policy would have no effect on single pieces of email.

Since that date there has been a lot of discussions on various lists, forums, and editorials about the impact of charging for email (anywhere from $0.001 to $0.01 has been cited) and what that might mean to us, a college or university. Spam is applying pressure to all of us -- imagine what it must be like at AOL, Yahoo, and MSN/Hotmail. Something needs to be done, but charging for email delivery will hurt all of us.

One thing we don't need is to arrive at work some Monday morning discovering that all our AOL or Yahoo cannot be delivered and we need to buy some 'black-box' appliance to "stamp" all our outbound email that is routed to these sites.

See this article for more info: http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/06/technology/yahoo_aol_email/index.htm?cnn=yes

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		AOL and Yahoo to make non-paid mail second class Created by Mark Palmer (Concordia University Texas) on February 9, 2006 Over the last six months information has been leaked that AOL and Yahoo will soon require bulk mailers (like stores, spammers, and universities) to become "certified" and pay "postage" for every piece of email received. In fact, on 1-FEB they announced a date when their old "whitelist" process would terminate and they would be using a service called Goodmail to filter their inbound email (and collect the fee as part of the processing). They quickly assured the individual user that this new policy would have no effect on single pieces of email. Since that date there has been a lot of discussions on various lists, forums, and editorials about the impact of charging for email (anywhere from $0.001 to $0.01 has been cited) and what that might mean to us, a college or university. Spam is applying pressure to all of us -- imagine what it must be like at AOL, Yahoo, and MSN/Hotmail. Something needs to be done, but charging for email delivery will hurt all of us. One thing we don't need is to arrive at work some Monday morning discovering that all our AOL or Yahoo cannot be delivered and we need to buy some 'black-box' appliance to "stamp" all our outbound email that is routed to these sites. See this article for more info: http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/06/technology/yahoo_aol_email/index.htm?cnn=yes Email \| Spam Mark's blog Login or register to post comments 2781 reads
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