Pay to send email...

[lug at the-leveys.us (Don Levey)]

discuss-bounces at blu.org wrote:
> If I understand the linked-to article correctly, it's not so much "pay
> to send email" as "pay to be exempt from spam-filtering".
>
> So by instituting this service, AOL is absolving itself of any
> responsibility to improve their content-based spam-filtering service.
> Imagine a dialogue between an AOL customer and tech support:
>
> "My cousin says he keeps sending me emails with pictures of his
> children, and I never get them."
>
>

I probably won't hit this level; I think they've got a volume threshhold,
abuse which it would be filtered (unless you cough up the cash).  Unless
you're sending your pictures to your entire extended family, I expect you
wouldn't hit this at all.  But what it does mean is that you'll receive your
adverts from Barnes and Noble and Amazon, but not from the corner bookshop
if they send more than, say, 20 messages to AOL.  Oops, I forgot: there are
no more corner bookshops, thank you B&N, etc.
 -Don