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

[Shawn Parker <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

is this like that fake rumor that circulates the web every so many
years about an "email tax?"

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBUrbanMyths.shtml#emailtax

has this actually been confirmed? i mean, for a week every blog and
news site in the industry touted google's upcoming ubuntu desktop
release, too.

On 2/6/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 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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