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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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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: StarCMC

Well, I'll say it again, then...it just gets better and better. (((hugs)))...and I don't mind reading it twice!


181 posted on 03/06/2006 10:10:26 PM PST by luvie (In... military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, idealistic, strong.GWB)
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To: LUV W

I'm not ill...I'm just blue.

BTW...Check your freepmail please


182 posted on 03/06/2006 10:10:27 PM PST by trussell (Work for God...the retirement benefits are great!)
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To: trussell

Gotcha!


183 posted on 03/06/2006 10:10:46 PM PST by luvie (In... military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, idealistic, strong.GWB)
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To: LUV W

LOL!! Thanks Luv!


184 posted on 03/06/2006 10:11:56 PM PST by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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To: StarCMC

Hmmmm...Did Morgan laFey put a spell on everyone here tonight? It seems to have been frozen in time.


185 posted on 03/06/2006 10:19:57 PM PST by luvie (In... military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, idealistic, strong.GWB)
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To: LUV W
That's the Moon rise in the shadow of Mauna Kea. And yes, I'm in awe most days.

I've seen lots of natural beauty in half the world. Never been to Europe though.
186 posted on 03/06/2006 10:20:07 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Order of Battle: Sink or capture as Prize, MS Media)
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To: LUV W; StarCMC

Sppppooo0000000ky, that Le fey!
Ms.B


187 posted on 03/06/2006 10:23:05 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: LUV W

ROFL!! I love it!!


188 posted on 03/06/2006 10:25:42 PM PST by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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To: BIGLOOK



You should go to Europe. If you just ignore the crazy people there is some absolutely beautiful things to see. as well as historical ones. We lived in Germany for three years, and wouldn't trade for those memories of the things we saw there.

I'd probably have a wreck from gawking! LOL!


189 posted on 03/06/2006 10:25:52 PM PST by luvie (In... military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, idealistic, strong.GWB)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN; StarCMC

Yeah....I was feeling the spell come over me! EEEKKK!!!


190 posted on 03/06/2006 10:26:39 PM PST by luvie (In... military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, idealistic, strong.GWB)
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To: StarCMC; tomkow6; All

WHOA check this out report from UK Times is report some Irish whiskey company getting ready for grand new booze by iintroducing first 180 proof WHISKEY I AM SO SERIOUS

What is 180 proof whiskey

Tomkow would you drink it????


191 posted on 03/06/2006 10:30:40 PM PST by SevenofNine (I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride with Ted Kennedy)
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To: trussell

What is this?
I am coming to Texas and ye are yet Blue?
(Sprinkling fairie dust on you)
You: Achoo!
Me:"God Bless ye, and so he has!
Ye need but look about..
*HUG*
Ms.B


192 posted on 03/06/2006 10:30:59 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: MoJo2001

Just request a return receipt when you send your e-mail. It is a feature of most e-mail programs. Why pay more? Unless they are refusing to deliver 'unpaid mail', and then, this is a protection rackett.


193 posted on 03/06/2006 10:35:37 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN; trussell; NYTexan

Yeah...we need some conversation about our awesome trip to get everyone's mood lifted!

Where's that darn Big Brother of mine? He has been AWOL tonight! I talked to some folks today that greatly approved his choice of restaurant for his party..says that they specialize in MARGARITAS! His favorite! Yoohoo!!!!


194 posted on 03/06/2006 10:36:18 PM PST by luvie (In... military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, idealistic, strong.GWB)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN

You are so sweet MS.B...I look forward to Texas...I really, really do. I'm just going through some things that are affecting my emotions. I'll be ok


195 posted on 03/06/2006 10:39:12 PM PST by trussell (Work for God...the retirement benefits are great!)
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To: LUV W
My brother and his wife visited Europe. Italy, Spain and England. Said Spain was the best.

Deutschland...Ich solte ein Ferien machen.
196 posted on 03/06/2006 10:39:42 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Order of Battle: Sink or capture as Prize, MS Media)
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To: BIGLOOK

Well....I don't remember any of the Deutsch that I learned then...LOL!

You should just bite the bullet and go there. You wouldn't regret it.

The funny thing is, I've been to Europe, to Thailand, Hong Kong, and Singapore, but I have never been to Hawaii. I do need to come there.


197 posted on 03/06/2006 10:42:01 PM PST by luvie (In... military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, idealistic, strong.GWB)
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To: LUV W; NYTexan; mylife

I will suffer hot temps...
I will ride in a crowded pick up with a stick shift..
But I will NOT shop at truck stops!
So dere!
LOL
Ms.B


198 posted on 03/06/2006 10:46:41 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN; tomkow6

Good evening, ms b.....so glad you are shopping, and have lots to choose from. We have 2. I believe tomkow has comcast. I know I've seen others. ((HUGS)) I'm going home.


199 posted on 03/06/2006 10:47:42 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN; NYTexan; mylife

Well, then I assume that you are riding with YOUR brother! LOL! His new truck should have an awesome air conditioner. I think May will just be the right temp!

We don't have to shop at truck stops. A friend at work said that a wonderful mall called "The Arboritium" is reeeeely close to our hotel in Austin! So, I got this thing covered.


200 posted on 03/06/2006 10:51:43 PM PST by luvie (In... military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, idealistic, strong.GWB)
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