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    AOL and Yahoo! to charge for emails

    Both companies will still accept free emails but are offering the chance to pay to avoid their spam filters. By paying between a quarter and one cent per message companies will get preferential delivery of their messages.
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    Only thing I'm concerned is how will my email be filtered...

    i.e. If I send a email to myself from school, with a couple of pictures(coursework) attached, with no body text and a rather plain subject will it got filtered?

    I admit there are hell lots of spam mail out there, I "only" get like 5 spam a day and my outlook's filter couldn't do anything to stop them... A weak filter is not gonna do anything but one which is too strong will affect legal (and actually important to individuals') emails
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    Its a great idea but has huge wide reaching implications and there is no guarentee this will help reduce spam i'm afraid.

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    The real problem as I see it is persuading senders to pay. You would have to send a lot of emails to AOL or Yahoo addresses to make this worthwhile - and the only realistic reason that you would do that is if you are a spammer!

    It only makes financial sense for contacting employees or clients urgently, and it would make more sense to give employees off-site access to corporate email accounts if necessary, and clients should be expected to pay for it themselves if they want the convenience of a yahoo or aol account

    The equivalent situation with mobile phones (initial high cost of calling them from a landline) was overcome because there was no other way of contacting someone on the move. The trouble is, there are loads of other email providers out there that people can use, so why should I pay to send email to aol?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mike_dowler
    You would have to send a lot of emails to AOL or Yahoo addresses to make this worthwhile - and the only realistic reason that you would do that is if you are a spammer!
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    Nah this sucks....

    you knwo why..... because your ISP gives you free everything with your Net account-

    i kinda hate the idea because that means the amount of people who will leave them 2 services is Barberic because u have to pay for spam filters......and lets face it...

    why woudl u have a account that doesnt have a Spam filter- i would suggest Hotmail and other free webmail services advertise free everything with their stuff

    i think the only way where gonna get rid of spam is just Ignore it like letetrs u get through the post...

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    What kind of business uses AOL or Yahoo for e-mail.

    Any half-assed company has a domain and hosting account with their own e-mail server. If not the 12 year old next door will.

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    I honestly can't see how this helps to cut spam/phising to be honest.

    Ok so now you get two different types of email - normal spam and business spam.. it's the same for the end user isn't it? Just because <random name of the day is "dell"> has paid 1c to send you their newsletter doesn't make it any less spam than the <random name 2 is "PCWorld"> newsletter that appears through the free post.

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