The good news is that Yahoo is going to start charging senders for email.
The major reason why our email boxes are piled high with spam is because emails are free to send. Even charging as little as 1/4 of a cent, which is what the plan calls for, will have the effect of making most of those annoying Viagra emails to go away.
And furthermore, by allowing email providers like Yahoo to make some profit from inbound email, the result will be better free web-based email for the consumer.
The side-effect of charging for email is that grandma will wonder what this new bill is for after a few spammers outsource their ad campaigns to her computer.
Posted by: Zol Hooper | February 05, 2006 at 05:28 PM
Charging for email will not be the panacea to spam. On the contrary, all those spam filters Yahoo and AOL peddle to their consumers will become a useless con. Once companies realize they can pay to flood Joe Netizen's inbox and bypass the controls, it's spam spam spam away...and with the EULAs that Yahoo and AOL force on the consumer, they are allowed to change the rules like that anytime they want...
Posted by: the27 | February 06, 2006 at 05:16 AM