FReeper Canteen ~ Tech Tuesday: Email Tax ~ Would you pay for email guarantees? ~ 07 March 2006

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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. Read More
 

 

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.

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank you, CMS, for helping keep us free.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.

[HiJinx]

I would if I could!

No, I still need to help Nana with her shower...her new knee isn't bending as well as we'd like just yet.

[Kathy in Alaska]

3d United States Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard)
Thanks, tx, for your service to our country.

[Fawnn]

Weeds? Chocolate? Weeds? Chocolate? Difficult decision! ;)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and sleep well, Piper’s Poppa. Thank you for your service to this great country of ours and for helping honor our troops.

[BIGLOOK]

Hilo....on the bay.

[Kathy in Alaska]

A rainbow towers over a barn near Dixon, Calif., after an isolated thunderstorm swept across Solano County.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Yeah Jinxie! Gramps takes his PHONE in the shower with HIM! Why can't YOU take your laptop?

Huh?

[Brad’s Gramma]

I grabbed an Oreo out of the box. And it broke.


BWWWWWWWWAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

:)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Very nice......I know you see the cruise ships....do they come into Hilo, or just sail by on their way to somewhere else?

[BIGLOOK]

They come here all the time. A couple local, a bunch of visiting cruises. Day trippers.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Thanks for tonight's thread Diva!
*HUG*
Good evening Ma!
Good evening Canteeners and Troops!
How's everybody tonight?
I'm shopping around for DSL..
We have 35 carriers here in Maine..
!!!!!!!
I'm confused by all the hype, and some of the prices are outrageous!
The one I like so far Is Comcast..
Can you advise me?
I'm in for abit!
Hugs alla round!
Ms.B
Can someone PING EGS to this post?
I can never get his name right!
LOL

[trussell]

Hi MS.B
Hugs!!

[trussell]

 

 

 

Angels in the alley

 
 

Diane, a young Christian university student, was home for he summer. She had gone to visit some friends one evening and the time passed quickly as each shared their various experiences of the past year. She ended up staying longer than she had planned. Evening came & Diane had to walk home alone. But she wasn't afraid because it was a small town and she lived only a few blocks away. As she walked along under the tall elm trees, Diane asked God to keep her safe from harm and danger.

When she reached the alley, which was a short cut to her house, she decided to take it. However, halfway down the alley, she noticed a man standing at the end, as though he were waiting for her. She became uneasy and began to pray, asking for God's protection. Instantly a comforting feeling of quietness & security wrapped around her; she felt as though someone was walking with her. When she reached the end of the alley, she walked right past the man and arrived home safely. The following day, she read in the paper that a young girl had been attacked in the same alley, just twenty minutes after she had been there. Feeling overwhelmed by this tragedy & the fact that it could have been her, she began to weep.

Thanking the lord for her safety & to help this young woman, she decided to go to the police station. She felt she could recognize the man, so she told them her story. The police asked her if she would be willing to look at a lineup to see if she could identify him. She agreed & immediately pointed out the man she had seem in the alley the night before.

When the man was told he had been identified, he immediately broke down & confessed. The officer thanked Diane for her bravery & asked if there was anything he could do for her. She asked if they would ask the man one questions. Diane was curious as to why he had not attacked her. When the policeman asked him, he answered, "Because she wasn't alone. She had two tall men walking on either side of her.

Never underestimate the power of prayer.

 

 

 

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Hey Lady T!
*HUG*
Ms.B

[luvie]

Ping...Ms. B needs you NOW!!!!!

[luvie]

How's that?

[luvie]

Another very beautiful one, Twin! (((hugs)))

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Whoa!
(shivers)
Ms.B