AOL and Yahoo charge for email

COMPANIES will soon have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain their emails are delivered.

America Online and Yahoo!, two of the largest email account providers, are about to start using a system that gives preference to messages from companies that pay up to US1¢ each to have them delivered. The senders must promise to contact only people who have agreed to receive their messages or risk being blocked.

The internet companies say this will help them identify legitimate mail and reduce junk email, identity-theft scams and other scourges that plague users. They also will earn millions of dollars a year if the system is widely adopted.

AOL and Yahoo! will still accept email from senders who have not paid, but the paid messages will be given special treatment. On AOL, for example, they will go straight to users' main mailboxes and will not have to pass the gauntlet of spam filters


Now my question is , who has any IMPORTANT email going to
yahoo? my yahoo address is a throw away, I dotn care if its spam in there
I am only going to look at the email when I am
bored

aol users, will just get soaked with fees because
anyone who doesnt pay the fee will automatically
go to the spam filter and not get through.

It will be an interesting experiment but
I dont think americans will let them get away with it.
the simple cure?
get a personal domain like your name.com
and have all your email sent to and from there
you can eliminater a lot of spam email


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