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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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To: All
Please take a moment and Thank a Service Man or Woman.
Just Click on the graphic to send an e-mail.


281 posted on 03/07/2006 7:04:43 AM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Have you said Thank You to a Service Man or Woman today?)
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To: All
See You All Tonight



Webmaster and Plank Owner
Commercial Fishing Vessel Safety Examiners Association




Commercial fishing is one of our nation’s most hazardous industries.
The Coast Guard is committed to increasing safety in the fishing industry.
The main objective is to increase compliance
with the minimum safety requirements found in
Title 46 Code of Federal Regulation, Part 28—
Requirements for Commercial Fishing Industry Vessels.


"...Between 1999 and 2003, for the US, a total of 528 uninspected commercial fishing vessel
were lost and 291 fishermen died.

“These figures clearly demonstrate that the death rate for the uninspected commercial fishing vessel industry is unacceptable in comparison to other segments of the maritime industry and the American workforce in general,” the analysis stated.

Furthermore, data compiled from voluntary dockside examinations “show conclusively” that increased survival rates of both fishermen and vessels are directly proportional to the proper equipping and maintenance of safety gear on vessels, “particularly when the crew has been properly trained to use these systems effectively in emergency response scenarios.”

Yet the Coast Guard estimates that only six percent of the approximately 90,000 uninspected commercial fishing vessels in the US today have had the voluntary dockside examination..."

282 posted on 03/07/2006 7:06:14 AM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (SEMPER PARATUS -- ALWAYS READY)
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To: tomkow6; acad1228

Yup...one of the questions here was whether or not you could ever have pure (200 proof) alcohol, since it starts to oxidize as soon as you pour it out of the bottle.

FWIW, I work with a bunch of engineers...!


283 posted on 03/07/2006 7:11:46 AM PST by HiJinx (~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Easter/Passover ~)
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To: The Mayor

Good morning, Mayor, and thanks for today's sustenance for body and soul.


284 posted on 03/07/2006 8:12:36 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: tomkow6

Mernin Tom!!


285 posted on 03/07/2006 8:29:02 AM PST by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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To: StarCMC; trussell; Old Sarge; MS.BEHAVIN; LUV W; Fawnn; Mrs.Nooseman; laurenmarlowe; GummyIII
That is a masterpiece!   Bravo!!!   I'm sharing this with others.
286 posted on 03/07/2006 8:58:53 AM PST by Lady Jag ( All I want is a kind word, a warm bed, and world domination)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; StarCMC; Old Sarge; All

Good morning!
Tonk..
I watched a episode about Coast Guard training on the Discovery channel...
Unreal!
Sometimes the boat took on waves backwards!
They were training somehwere called "Cape D"..
Can you tell me where that is?
*HUG*
Ms.B


287 posted on 03/07/2006 8:58:54 AM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: Lady Jag

Good morning!
*HUG*
Feeling better?
Ms.B


288 posted on 03/07/2006 9:10:02 AM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: tomkow6; LUV W; All

You got to admit Tomkow that too much alcohol DAMN leave to the Irish created something like this

Report that Irish company want give lots for it is customer they creating this LOL!

Well report off Tass news wire report that Russia is being hail by Hamas as forwarding looking country EXCUSE ME LOL!

And another report off AP wire Quick Draw Dick Cheney is calling Iran most dangerous country in the world and Bush adminiatrion would stop them

OH OH Mullahs are in trouble Quick Draw Dick is at again LOL


289 posted on 03/07/2006 9:15:18 AM PST by SevenofNine (I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride with Ted Kennedy)
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To: tomkow6

Hi Tom.


290 posted on 03/07/2006 9:58:44 AM PST by Pusterfuss (Proud member: Minnesotans for Global Warming)
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To: beachn4fun

Sorry about the Bathtub blues.

I have discovered with home improvements...Allow 30% more than what you think it will cost and 50% more time.


291 posted on 03/07/2006 9:59:20 AM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..".Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity"GW Bush)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN; Lady Jag; AZamericonnie; GoldStarBrother; 2LT Radix jr; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; ...

YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!!

 NOW HEAR THIS!

CMS IS BACK ON AMERICAN SOIL!!

WOOOHOOOOOO!!

 

Now  back to your regularly scheduled FReeping!!

 

292 posted on 03/07/2006 10:22:25 AM PST by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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To: StarCMC

BTTT


293 posted on 03/07/2006 10:24:44 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: CMS

Welcome Home, CMS!!!

294 posted on 03/07/2006 10:26:18 AM PST by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Morning. Home for a fast lunch.


295 posted on 03/07/2006 10:29:04 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

In for a quick break. Happy lunch.


296 posted on 03/07/2006 11:03:23 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: HopeandGlory
Thanks, Hope, for today's Pledge. Welcome home, AfghanMan. Thanks to you and Penguin Girl for helping keep all of us free and safe.


297 posted on 03/07/2006 11:05:45 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: MoJo2001

I wonder how many folks will be leaving AOL......and them facilitating getting around the spam blockers...I don't think so.


298 posted on 03/07/2006 11:07:43 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: All

Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!

Seven Dwarfs ~ Whistle While You Work

Want more information about the artists we play?
Perhaps you'd like to buy concert tickets or their CDs?
Click the links below for more information!

ArtistDirect.com l Amazon.com l Ticketmaster.com l Songfacts.com l Walmart.com


299 posted on 03/07/2006 11:10:58 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: All

Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!

Juice Newton ~ Queen of Hearts

Want more information about the artists we play?
Perhaps you'd like to buy concert tickets or their CDs?
Click the links below for more information!

ArtistDirect.com l Amazon.com l Ticketmaster.com l Songfacts.com l Walmart.com


300 posted on 03/07/2006 11:14:13 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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