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Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail
From: der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:02:01 -0400 (EDT)
Uncertified e-mail has nothing to do with Goodmail. Such e-mail will be delivered according to current policies just as before Goodmail.
...for now.
This is the point that DearAOL people are persistantly ignoring and denying without basis.
While I am not as conspiracy-theorist as they appear to be, I have, far too often, seen a company saying "no we will never do that" to reassure a worried public and then, after a relatively short delay (a year or so is about right) going ahead and doing "that" anyway. I have no inside information about AOL that bears on this (none at all as far as I can recall). But, as I do most companies, I trust AOL about as far as I can throw them when it comes to doing the Right Thing against short-term financial incentives. This is not to say that any of the people from AOL, here or elsewhere, are deliberately deceiving anyone. I'm fully prepared to believe that they mean everything they say. I just don't trust AOL qua AOL not to change its mind. (In fact, I almost expect it.) This is also not to say that I see any short-term financial incentives for AOL to reverse its stance on this matter. But I am not at all convinced that AOL won't see any.
AOL's choice to censor opposition to its misguided proposalI don't know what to make of this; what is AOL censoring?
If you believe the reports (which I'm not sure I do, but it's the stance this comment is based on), the answer is: dearaol.com. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse () rodents montreal qc ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail, (continued)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Andre Ludwig (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Andre Ludwig (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Matthew Murphy (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail John Levine (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Dude VanWinkle (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail der Mouse (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail John Levine (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Brian Loe (Apr 19)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail der Mouse (Apr 19)