Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] The eminent victory of spam

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Huggard, Arthur Charles (UMC-Student) wrote:

> "AOL and Yahoo are going to start charging anywhere from 1/4¢ to 1¢ to 
> guarantee that messages will wind up in the inboxes of the recipients. 
> Free e-mail will still be accepted, but there will be no guarantee that 
> it will find its way through the spam filters and into users' inboxes. 
> In the case of AOL, free e-mail is also likely to be delivered without 
> included images and URLs." - 
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060205-6116.html
>
>
> So, if I was an AOL or Yahoo user my Inbox will now be filled with spam, 
> and my "Junk Mail" folder would be empty. I thought Symantec said in 
> their last Annual report that the current trend of malware was to the 
> creation of zombie-machine networks that could be hired out. The spam 
> network owner(s) jack up their price a bit and then this becomes a 
> reality for all of the AOL and Yahoo members. Doesn't this completely 
> defeat the purpose of junk mail filters?? Does this offend/scare anyone 
> else? Personally I'm glad I have Google for a non-university email 
> account, and as long as Google keeps their motto, I'll be safe.


I'm not sure I understand their plan fully, but it sounds like they will 
deliver mail for some commercial groups that might not have known the 
email addresses in the first place.  That would be wrong.

Gmail does a fine job of spam filtering.  I would not request any change 
in the way Gmail is working for me, so maybe if I were on AOL, I'd just 
dump them and go to free Gmail.

Mike

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