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AOL and Yahoo will sell people the right to bypass our spam filters. (emails)
just got this from Joe (journal editor guy)
Hi, I would say it's inaccurate.
The short answer: the whitelist isn't going away, and spammers won't be
able to pay their way into your mailbox.
Honestly, I think we're in good shape here.
I talked to the postmaster mentioned in the article, Charles Stiles --
he suggests folks look at a comment he's left on the subject:
http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/2006/02/has_aol_just_en.html#comments
(his comment begins with the term "Sour Grapes"), where he says:
"First, AOL will continue to offer IP-based white list and enhanced
white list privileges to mailers that do not wish to take advantage of
the CertifiedEmail program. As long as there is market demand and
operational need for these services, AOL will continue to operate
them."
Jason Calacanis has also blogged about it:
http://www.calacanis.com/2006/02/05/nyt-check-in-on-goodmail-debate-or-we
-are-keeping-the-white-li/
I am suggesting to the postmaster folks that they post a response
addressing all this on the postmaster.info.aol.com site, to clear up
any lingering confusion.
I hadn't planned on blogging about it, though I might if I need to.
Thanks,
Joe
AOL Journals Editor
http://peopleconnection.aol.com/journals
See the Magic Smoke: http://journals.aol.com/journalseditor/magicsmoke
6 comments:
I've pretty much been posting mostly to my blogger account. I just find myself really enjoying blogger more lately.
Derek
http://www.blogger.com/profile/7331305
heck blogger and my space and blogspot already do that i cant go there witou being bammed by adware
oh cool, I'll check this out.
D
wow
that's tacky.
thanks for the head's up.
xoxoxo,
andi
I have to read this again later. Grandchildren making me crazy. I'm not quite sure what it means.....read it too fast.
Angela
I've been following this news story and it's much more hype rather than fact. AOL will be charging some companies to assure that their legit bulk e-mail gets through to members that want it. It's all part of a way to fight spam (non-legit bulk e-mail) before it ever reaches a inbox.
It's a good news story to follow as I've seen many comments from people who try to send bulk e-mail into AOL. Like sending e-mail to 5000 or more members for example and some of them have horrible attitudes about their "aol e-mail subscribers."
I saw one comment from a guy who maintains a cool astronomy blog/website I follow with RSS. I'm really dropping that website from my bloglines as the guy has a stupid attitude about aol members in general and yet he tries to send e-mail to over 5000 of us everytime he sends out his newsletter by e-mail.
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