In message <440A3211.90301@???>, W B Hacker
<wbh@???> writes
>AOL users may, or may not, see an increase in 'legitimized'
>spam. IF [ any | enough] organizations choose to pay the fee.
>
>Might AOL then also charge the *users* another fee to have the
>now-legitimized spam once again filtered?
There's some useful information about what AOL are actually changing
within their system in John Levine's blog
http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/goodmail.html
You'll notice a certain tension between what John thinks is going on
compared with the EFF description, and so you'll need to make up your
own mind how excited to get -- at least in the short term.
I would observe in passing that EFF have not generally had a
particularly mainstream position on dealing with spam
http://www.eff.org/spam/position_on_junk_email.php
since they have tended to concentrate on the rights of senders,
especially those sending political speech, rather than -- as I suspect
most here may do -- making the rights of recipients paramount. However,
do make up your own mind :)
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richard Richard Clayton
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary
Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755
