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FReeper Canteen ~ Tech Tuesday: Email Tax ~ Would you pay for email guarantees? ~ 07 March 2006
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Posted on 03/06/2006 5:36:12 PM PST by MoJo2001


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Technology Tuesday
 
GummyIII will return next week (if possible), but she's busy saving the world from a chocolate shortage! It's an important job we wouldn't trust to just anyone. Definitely not something for MoJo.

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Since many of our Troops use AOL, we wanted to know what you thought about AOL's plans for folks to pay for GoodMail. Is it something worth fretting over, a new enterprising an idea, or another way for which companies can milk money out of consumers already using free email services?


 

What's This About?
In February 2006, AOL announced that it would accept payment for incoming emails. For these certified emails, it would skip its usual anti-spam filters and guarantee delivery for cash. Our coalition believes that the free passage of email between Internet users is a vital part of what makes the Internet work. When ISPs demand a cut of "pay-to-send" email, they're raising tollbooths on the open Net, interfering with the passage of data by demanding protection money at the gates of their customers' computers.
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What's this controversy all about?

AOL has proposed the adoption of a system called CertifiedEmail, provided by Goodmail Systems. Under this pay-to-send system, affluent mass-emailers who are willing to pay AOL the equivalent of an "email tax" would get to bypass AOL's spam filters and get guaranteed delivery to the inboxes of AOL customers.

Everyone who can't afford to pay AOL's "email tax" - including charities, small businesses, civic organizations, and even families with mailing lists - will have no guarantee that their emails will be delivered. If other companies follow AOL in adopting pay-to-send systems, the Internet will become permanently divided into two classes of users - those who can afford to pay for guaranteed delivery and everyone else left behind with unreliable service.

Though billed in the media as an anti-spam and anti-phishing measure, AOL's pay-to-send system will fail on both scores.

AOL's "email tax" will cause great harm to the free and open Internet that many of us take for granted. The Internet is a revolutionary force for free speech, civic organizing, and economic innovation specifically because it is open and accessible to all Internet users. With a free and open Internet, small ideas can become big ideas overnight. AOL's move to introduce a pay-to-send system is a danger to this openness, and we urge them to reconsider.

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Which brings us to the next question: Is this something to get hyper over? Or is it a real concern? Would you pay for the service?

 

What say you?


 

 

Disclaimer:
Do you ever wonder why companies always put disclaimers at the bottom of their pages? And then they expect you to read the *fine print* as well? Well, this is done for a reason. It allows them to make up a bunch of unecessary rules and BS that no one will read nor thinks about reading. As a matter of fact, the disclaimers are really *Dating Ads* that those anonymous computer geeks put out to the general public. It's a way to get them a date via their disclaimers. It's risk free and also a sure way to ensure that their name will appear in the ad somewhere. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, then you totally understand the ideas about disclaimers. They're useless for the most part.

 

 


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KEYWORDS: aol; computers; email; military; technology; troopssupport
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To: MeekMom
Work IS a drag.....going very slowly. So many corrections.
Are you feeling any better?


101 posted on 03/06/2006 9:09:25 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: Randy Larsen

Randy Larsen


102 posted on 03/06/2006 9:09:25 PM PST by trussell (Work for God...the retirement benefits are great!)
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To: Brad's Gramma
I think there's a chance you might make it. (How come the nights I'm coherent and actually here to talk, nobody talks? Should I take it personally?) ;)


Brad's Gramma!!! #100!!!

103 posted on 03/06/2006 9:11:54 PM PST by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
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To: All

 

Time to party...
Welcome home
Brian!

I've got ice cream

and cake...

And a big hug to thank you 
for protecting me and my babies


Thank you God for bringing
Brian home safe!
 


104 posted on 03/06/2006 9:12:28 PM PST by trussell (Work for God...the retirement benefits are great!)
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To: Fawnn
Should I take it personally?) ;)

I was wondering the same thing...tonight is very slow. Folks must have prior engagements, or something.

105 posted on 03/06/2006 9:13:05 PM PST by HiJinx (~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Easter/Passover ~)
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To: Fawnn
Should I take it personally?) ;)

Did you say something? ;)











































Fleeing....

106 posted on 03/06/2006 9:13:53 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma
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To: Randy Larsen

Randy Larsen!!!

107 posted on 03/06/2006 9:14:43 PM PST by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
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To: Brad's Gramma; Fawnn

Yeah, you oughtta run!

Stinker. I take back all those nice things I said earlier, Bo.


108 posted on 03/06/2006 9:15:35 PM PST by HiJinx (~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Easter/Passover ~)
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To: HiJinx

Well! How Der you? :)


109 posted on 03/06/2006 9:16:08 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma
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To: Brad's Gramma; HiJinx

Well, according to what I heard, everyone else is on a conference call -- talking about you two! ;)


110 posted on 03/06/2006 9:16:11 PM PST by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
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To: Fawnn; HiJinx

Oh oh.

OH oh.

Ohhhhhhhh oh.


I think I BETTER flee, huh?


111 posted on 03/06/2006 9:16:44 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma
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To: Fawnn

How's your Mom doing?


112 posted on 03/06/2006 9:17:09 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma
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To: Fawnn; Brad's Gramma

Ummm...what did I miss?

We getting voted off the island?


113 posted on 03/06/2006 9:17:42 PM PST by HiJinx (~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Easter/Passover ~)
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To: HiJinx; Fawnn

I
am
NOT
giving
up
my
PEN
PAL!!!

NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!


114 posted on 03/06/2006 9:18:22 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma
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To: Brad's Gramma

She still has limited use of her arm, but she's doing better. (She needs to heal faster! I could use her help with some cleaning around here! LOL)

Did you know that my daughter broke her foot? Did it on Christmas. Tried going back to work a week-ish ago, had problems, so the doctor took her off work for another two weeks.


115 posted on 03/06/2006 9:19:37 PM PST by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
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To: HiJinx; Brad's Gramma
We getting voted off the island?

What do you mean "we"? ;)
116 posted on 03/06/2006 9:20:57 PM PST by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
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To: Old Sarge; Skyraider

Thanks, Sarge, B-E-D, the Kids of the Company, and The Vulcan, for your service to America.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.


117 posted on 03/06/2006 9:23:04 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: Fawnn

YIKES! A goobered up arm on one and a goobered up foot on another?

Ms. Fawnn...please. PLEASE be careful...


118 posted on 03/06/2006 9:23:41 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma
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To: Laurita

Thanks, Laurita, for your service to America.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.

Extra prayers for Eddie’s healing.


119 posted on 03/06/2006 9:23:44 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: Fawnn; HiJinx

....gettin' a little nervous here...


120 posted on 03/06/2006 9:24:03 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma
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