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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: E.G.C.

Good morning and (((HUGS))) EG. So far, so good this morning. But, then again, Bath Fitters has not shown up yet! LOL

Whatz happening out your way?


261 posted on 03/07/2006 4:51:55 AM PST by beachn4fun ("Being American means being free. That's why they're proud." Tony Blair 7/17/03)
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To: GodBlessUSA

Good morning, GB

I hope all goes well this morning, too!

How's it going for you? Plans for today?


262 posted on 03/07/2006 4:52:54 AM PST by beachn4fun ("Being American means being free. That's why they're proud." Tony Blair 7/17/03)
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To: beachn4fun

You trying to tell me sumptin'???


263 posted on 03/07/2006 5:02:30 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)
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To: GodBlessUSA; beachn4fun
((HUGS))Good morning, GodBlessUSA. How's it going?,P>Wel,, first off on the idea of an EMail Tax. Let me just respond with two words; H*** NO!!!!!!!!

Secondaly I'm going to post an opinion on another subject in a few minutes. I want to invite everyone to click on my screename in the "In Forum" to read those observations.

We're crossing our fingers for some rain today and tommorow. Unfortunately, it may come with some severe weather which is the last thing we need after having to deal with all those wildfires lastweek.

It'll be getting into the low 80's for highs today.

How's it going, GodBlessUSA?

264 posted on 03/07/2006 5:02:46 AM PST by E.G.C.
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265 posted on 03/07/2006 5:23:34 AM PST by acad1228
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To: acad1228

Mernin' Acad!


266 posted on 03/07/2006 5:27:42 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)
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To: tomkow6
Mernin, Tom!
267 posted on 03/07/2006 5:30:53 AM PST by acad1228
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To: trussell; GummyIII; LaDivaLoca; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Kathy in Alaska; Fawnn; MoJo2001; ...
Good Morning Canteen FReepers!


268 posted on 03/07/2006 5:39:06 AM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: GodBlessUSA; Old Sarge; MS.BEHAVIN
Thanks!!! And Ms.B too! LOL!!!
269 posted on 03/07/2006 5:41:15 AM PST by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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To: acad1228

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270 posted on 03/07/2006 5:49:57 AM PST by relent_less (Strategy for Iraq: Win the War...Win the Peace!)
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To: darkwing104

Mernin', DW!


271 posted on 03/07/2006 5:51:53 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)
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To: StarCMC

Mernin', Star!


272 posted on 03/07/2006 5:52:33 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)
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To: relent_less

Mernin', RL!


273 posted on 03/07/2006 5:52:50 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)
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To: E.G.C.

Good morning E.G.C
Hugs!!


274 posted on 03/07/2006 6:03:42 AM PST by trussell (Work for God...the retirement benefits are great!)
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To: trussell

Mernin, T!


275 posted on 03/07/2006 6:06:35 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)
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To: tomkow6

Good morning Tom. How are you and yours today?


276 posted on 03/07/2006 6:11:48 AM PST by trussell (Work for God...the retirement benefits are great!)
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To: SevenofNine; All

The "proof" is the alcohol content of distilled liquors. It is the percentage of alcohol multiplied by two. For example:

50% alcohol = 100-proof alcohol
100% alcohol = 200-proof alcohol


277 posted on 03/07/2006 6:17:25 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)
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To: tomkow6

Good morning to you, too, Mr. Tom...still waiting for those burkas to arrive in the US mail (bulk rate)...it's been weeks, you shouldda used FedEx...lol.


278 posted on 03/07/2006 6:22:24 AM PST by relent_less (Strategy for Iraq: Win the War...Win the Peace!)
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To: tomkow6; SevenofNine
If I remember my Navy training, 180 proof is almost pure alcohol?

There was discussion about this yesterday around the coffee pot here at w***. Something similar was distilled in the days of Wm. Shakespeare in England. Lore at the time insisted that any more than 3 tablespoons of the elixir would kill a man of normal proportions...

279 posted on 03/07/2006 6:42:33 AM PST by HiJinx (~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Easter/Passover ~)
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To: HiJinx

Morning, HJ! See post 277


280 posted on 03/07/2006 6:50:17 AM PST by tomkow6 (Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)
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