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

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Russell Horn wrote:

> 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.


I'm not clear on how they will decide.  If they see 100,000 identical 
messages coming in from the same source, that must be "spam" but if they 
only see 100 such messages, is that "spam?"  Or do they ignore the numbers 
and consider every "Precendence: Bulk" message to be spam?  What about 
"Precedence: List?"  I really doubt that this new plan will affect mail 
from MLUG or similar lists.  They do not want to piss off their customers!

Also, how much of MLUG and FOSS-related email goes to AOL or Yahoo 
accounts?  Not much, I think, and those users will drop their accounts 
quickly if they don't like the new system.

Again, I recommend Gmail.

Mike

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