Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail

[Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 2/4/06, Richard M. Smith <rms () bsf-llc com> wrote:

> America Online and Yahoo, two of the world's largest providers of e-mail
> accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential
> treatment to messages from companies that pay from 1/4 of a cent to a penny
> each to have them delivered. The senders must promise to contact only people
> who have agreed to receive their messages, or risk being blocked entirely.

> the paid messages will be given special treatment. On AOL, for example, they
> will go straight to users' main mailboxes, and will not have to pass the
> gantlet of spam filters that could divert them to a junk-mail folder or
> strip them of images and Web links.

So I need to set up a domain, then using a stolen CC#, I can send
pornographic spam to your kids without fear of being caught in a
filter.

Since the domains are throwaway and my customers will be in the dark
as to my advertising methods (he said he was sending them
legitimately) plus the fact that I live in Antarctica, I have no
worries.

Bad idea! Especially if they expect me to pay 1/4 Cent to send an
email to an @aol user, avoiding the spam filters.

Now if I could pay them a 1/4 cent not to get emails from @yahoo and
@aol, _that_ I may be interested in ;-)

-JP

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