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Story: Spam campaigners reject email payment plan
Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 6 February 2006, 7:21 PM)
Who couldn't see this coming years ago?? AOL,MSN,Earthlink, Yahoo, bought the Can-Spam bill with their lobbyists, plain and simple. Follow the money trail.
The isp's long term plan was to squeeze out incoming commercial e-mail, and replace it with paid e-mail. That day has just about come.
For example, a Hotmail account I've had for years used to get dozens of emails/day. Now it gets zero, except for Hotmail's "partner" - read : their advertisers.
Sorry public, you've been hoodwinked. You think they cared about you and your spam problem? Then why doesn't the can-spam bill allow for us to sue spammers??
Face it, AOL and the other big isp's own the net. Their lobbyists bought and paid for the can-spam bill, and now they control what e-mails you'll receive. And it'll only be paid ones in your inbox.
Full Talkback thread
Story: Spam campaigners reject email payment plan
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There is one way to tell the Government what it is... Larry J. Linder -
there should be no charge for e mail since this is... hasmukh
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No, no, no. Email should stay free. This is just... Anonymous
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Who couldn't see this coming years ago?? AOL,MSN,E... Anonymous -
Let's all open e-mail accounts with crazy nam... Anonymous -
It sounds as if AOL are selling a license to SPAM.... Anonymous
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I don't know the specifics of the AOL plan, but I'... JC
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err. arn't these comments spam samuel_uk
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Reckon paid for consumer email may well be se... Jon
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How can they guarantee that the mail wil... David Wright -
Once again we see someone slighting... Andrew Meredith
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As was quoted before 'At the m... Jon -
If the first one hundred messa... Charles Weber
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Does anyone really think that... Phoenix
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I don't quiet get the deal here. A... AndyH
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I do not agree to this proposal as it is not a nec... Chris Goodman
