AOL to introduce Guaranteed Spam Delivery
Posted by Matthew on Friday February 3, 2006 @12:26AM
from the refugees-from-AOL dept.
Matthew writes: AOL has finally figured out how to charge for e-mail: Forget about charging the 5% of legitimate senders and make the spammers pay to reach their customers directly.
So they plan to block access to their 40 million subscribers to anyone who sends bulk mail (or whose mail server has been exploited by someone who does) unless the bulk mailer pays a per-message fee. Other free e-mail providers are expected to follow suit as soon as they determine how few of the remaining idiots on AOL actually flee because of the new guaranteed spam delivery service.