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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. ---------------------- 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
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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. ------------------------------------------
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?
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KEYWORDS: aol; computers; email; military; technology; troopssupport
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To: HiJinx; MoJo2001
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; tomkow6; LUV W; All
Well UK Telegraph reporting that Russia may break and go against EU and US suport Iran on getting nukes Gee no suprise there eh
Also Aussie Age wire report thattttt UK may withdrawel troops out of Iraq by middle of 2008 no timetable YET
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posted on
03/06/2006 7:45:42 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
(I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride with Ted Kennedy)
To: Brad's Gramma
Yup, just saw that.
I don't think we're considered a public forum, since JimRob routinely kicks people off...
Nor are we really anonymous...but...
Congress hates an unregulated entity.
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posted on
03/06/2006 7:46:44 PM PST
by
HiJinx
(~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Easter/Passover ~)
To: tomkow6
While you are reasonably sure MoJo did it,
she's totally sure and very confident about your guilt Tom........
*sigh*
mmmmm
To: HiJinx
Nor are we really anonymousHuh. That's what YOU think. I am ACTUALLY an 85 year old man didja know that huh? REALLY! Ask MoJo! She's talked to me! ....just kidding. :)
To: Brad's Gramma
So refreshing to see innocent people around..
heheheh
To: EsmeraldaA
Dat's me!
INN-o-Cent!
(got a bridge thingy for sale, too...ya interested?)
To: EsmeraldaA; tomkow6; MoJo2001
she's totally sure and very confident about your guilt Tom........ I dunno 'bout that...us guys fix things, we don't break 'em...unless they need to be broke!
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posted on
03/06/2006 7:52:37 PM PST
by
HiJinx
(~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Easter/Passover ~)
To: MoJo2001; tomkow6
I forgot to ping you to this Diva....;o)
While you are reasonably sure MoJo did it,
she's totally sure and very confident about your guilt Tom........
*sigh*
mmmmm
To: Brad's Gramma
LOL!
I already have one in red and one in yellow (apparently that's a lot)
To: Brad's Gramma
Shoot, and I thought you were really Bo Derek
or someone else like that.
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posted on
03/06/2006 7:56:43 PM PST
by
HiJinx
(~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Easter/Passover ~)
To: HiJinx
You couldn't be further from the truth if you tried! :) Wow! Wrong-O!
To: HiJinx; tomkow6; MoJo2001
Sure...........
Like I didn't hear that one before!
hehehe
To: EsmeraldaA
Ya gots TWO bridges????
One in red and one in yellow?
Whoooooooooooooooooo boy. SOMEONE was a great salesperson!
To: MoJo2001
Would you pay for email guarantees?
No. If they start charging across the boards, I'm done with email.
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posted on
03/06/2006 8:00:23 PM PST
by
mysterio
To: Brad's Gramma
Really? Conservative, mature, intelligent...where'd I go wrong?
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posted on
03/06/2006 8:01:04 PM PST
by
HiJinx
(~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Easter/Passover ~)
To: Brad's Gramma
HEY!
The looked pretty..
To: HiJinx
The second and third ones were a tad off. ;)
To: EsmeraldaA
OK! OK!
I myself, have bought a vacuum cleaner (eons ago) from ... why am I saying this on an open forum????? .... a door to door salesman.
WORST piece of junk I've ever owned in all of my life..
To: tomkow6; LUV W; All
Well report off UK Times is report that Vlad of Russia has sign new law that would permit the Russian miltaty shoot down terrorist hijack plane or ships
DAMN Russia is cold
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posted on
03/06/2006 8:07:38 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
(I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride with Ted Kennedy)
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