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1. Comment - AOL, Yahoo to Charge Filter Bypass Fees

   (Feb 8, 2006 - 8:18 AM)

   Notably it is the sender who will be paying for the service, that is the service of ensuring we get their spam. (Yeah, it's still spam).
   
   We (as customers) will be "subscribed" to the service by simply using AOL or Yahoo mail solutions. The upside is there is no direct cost to us, the downside is the cost of deleting any email that the sender felt valuable enough to spend 1c on to ensure you have to delete it manually.
   
   Notably mail marketing is still widely used while it costs them 10-20c just to mail it, aside from the cost of printed material. I think we will quickly find this service as lacking greatly, as 1c per email is a drop in the bucket to large marketers.
   
   My question about all this is as a paying customer of Yahoo, I have the option or marking any email address or URL as "spam". If I mark a email as "spam", even though it might be a paid email, will Yahoo still let it through the filter?

2. Comment - AOL, Yahoo to Charge Filter Bypass Fees

   (Feb 8, 2006 - 8:13 AM)

   You don't have anything substantive to back up that claim.Most AOL bashers heard something from a friend of a friend who heard it from a friend. If you don't like AOL, don't do business with them. It's as simple as that.
   
   Tom, I don't do business with AOL, never have and never will, for one very simple reason. They are too expensive. I prefer to keep more of my money in my pocket than give it to AOL, and yes I am older like you. I also am on S.S. and need every penny I can get.

3. Comment - AOL, Yahoo to Charge Filter Bypass Fees

   (Feb 8, 2006 - 8:11 AM)

   I am a paying Yahoo! customer. I pay for expanded Yahoo! mail services. It really seems to me they want customers to pay for extended services as well as those trying to send customers spam. Yahoo! is moving dangerously close to changing their loyalties from consumer protection and services to courting the "enemy".
   
   Same here, if "My paid Yahoo" starts letting a bunch of paid spam emails through, I will have to go else where.

4. Comment - AOL, Yahoo to Charge Filter Bypass Fees

   (Feb 8, 2006 - 8:06 AM)

   Well, the word Legitimate has to be determined by the person receiving the e-mail, not the companies that are sending it to your or those companies that said they will filter it.
   
   I agree, this should be the decision of the person receiving the email, not the sender, or the company making money from allowing it to be sent.

5. Comment - AOL, Yahoo to Charge Filter Bypass Fees

   (Feb 8, 2006 - 7:58 AM)

   I receive thousands of spam emails per week. Do you realize how ridiculous it is for you to say, if someone does not want email from you, to just follow the "remove me link" in each email. How would you feel about doing this on a few thousand unwanted emails per week? Think carefully about what you said.