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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: AZamericonnie

(((Connie))))...what on earth are you doing here at this ungodly hour! Tryin' to become a night owl? LOL!

Thanks for your beautiful Tribute! It warms my heart as it causes tears to flow when I watch it.


221 posted on 03/06/2006 11:29:56 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: NYTexan

PHHLLLBTT!
(evil grin)
Just wait till ya meet me in person!!
Ms.B


222 posted on 03/06/2006 11:30:40 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: LUV W

Hiya Hon....just got home a little after midnight...all ready for bed & thought I'd read the thread to unwind.

I'll be asleep in a few....thank goodness there's not 500 posts or so to read! lol


223 posted on 03/06/2006 11:34:50 PM PST by AZamericonnie (~www.ProudPatriots.org~Operation Easter/Passover~Serving those who serve us!~)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN

I think some of that sleep is not too far away....I'm fading already. A hot shower will have to do. Go to bed, and get your rest, pain free I hope.


224 posted on 03/06/2006 11:35:22 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN; NYTexan

Well, I'm having a hard time giving up! He is going to have a lot on his hands with the two of us. Between us we an raise a lot of you-know-what! LOL! Let 'er rip! :o)


225 posted on 03/06/2006 11:42:17 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: AZamericonnie

I'd better go for reals now. I said goodnight a while ago and have a hard time letting go.

See ya tomorrow? ((((hugs)))


226 posted on 03/06/2006 11:43:07 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: Kathy in Alaska

Go to bed, Ma..
It'll keep!
We know what you do for us..
By God!
How could anyone do MORE?
I'll keep watch for abit..
(leading you by the hand)
Go sink into that tub!
GO!!!
Ms.B


227 posted on 03/06/2006 11:43:38 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN
I'm gonna start to shut down. ((HUGS)) Thanks for all you do for our troops. Happy DSL shopping.


228 posted on 03/07/2006 12:10:16 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; Laurita; Old Sarge; The Sailor; AbnSarge; CMS; BilboB; Defender2; ...

229 posted on 03/07/2006 12:45:13 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: All

Our National Anthem


Kate Smith ~ God Bless America

230 posted on 03/07/2006 12:46:13 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: All

Invoking Reagan, K.T. McFarland enters the
New York senatorial race, stating, "I can beat Hillary."

This cartoon/graphic is free for noncommercial use
in emails, blogs, and forums.


231 posted on 03/07/2006 12:46:59 AM PST by IPWGOP (I'm Linda Eddy, and I approved this message... 'tooning the truth!)
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To: HiJinx; mylife; NRA1995; SandRat; SouthernHawk
Good morning fellow cubevillians!


232 posted on 03/07/2006 1:04:24 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; Laurita; Old Sarge; AbnSarge; CMS; BilboB; OneLoyalAmerican; The Sailor; ...
God bless and keep safe our troops worldwide.

Good night.


Statler Brothers ~ How Great Thou Art


233 posted on 03/07/2006 1:06:02 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: Pusterfuss
Good morning, Pusterfuss........((HUGS)) I faded early.
234 posted on 03/07/2006 1:13:01 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Good morning ((Kathy)) and everyone.


235 posted on 03/07/2006 1:22:46 AM PST by Pusterfuss (Proud member: Minnesotans for Global Warming)
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To: trussell
((HUGS))Good morning, Trussell. How's it going?

A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our militray at home and abroad. Thanks for your contuined service to our country.

236 posted on 03/07/2006 3:00:40 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: Kathy in Alaska

((HUGS))Good morning, Kathy. How's it going?


237 posted on 03/07/2006 3:02:50 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

good morning, Tonk. How's it going?


238 posted on 03/07/2006 3:04:25 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

BTTT


239 posted on 03/07/2006 3:04:41 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: MoJo2001

((HUGS))Good morning, MoJo. How's it going?


240 posted on 03/07/2006 3:05:50 AM PST by E.G.C.
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