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

[Russell Horn <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 08:34 -0600, Jonathan King wrote:

> I do not have time to answer this in full right now, but I'm actually
> *jumping with joy* at the prospect of this: paid guaranteed delivery
> of email.  It provides a concrete cost to the act of spending
> unsolicited email, and a high enough cost to dissuade a lot of it from
> ever being sent.  

There are a myriad of other ways to tackle the spam problem. This method
should horrify us all.

What AOL are suggesting is that if you send lots of email to their
servers you have to pay to avoid being classified as spam.

That means that those folk that run free mailing lists - think MLUG, the
Linux kernel Mailing List, mysql-users and all the other lists
associated with FOSS could be hit badly.

What about small businesses that operate a double opt-in mailing list to
keep in touch with customers? They're not sending spam but suddenly
can't benefit from email. They can't send invoices or order
confirmations as they'll now be delivered straight to the user's junk
mailbox.

Remember we're paying to send email (through our ISP subscription). AOL
users are paying to receive it. This is just a way of extracting money
to ensure the message gets delivered - a profit making scheme Dick
Turpin would have been proud of.

R.


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