By SAUL HANSELL
> Companies will soon have to buy the electronic equivalent of a
> postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be
> delivered to many of their customers.
> 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.
So ... spammers sign up for this under a throwaway business/domain, send spam to AOL'ers knowing that the spam will be delivered without any filtering whatsoever, and then disappear.
I understand this cuts down the spammers, since they actually have to pay a little, but the advantage of entirely bypassing filters would be huge for many spammers.
Am I confused?
Thanks --
David
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