Thursday, March 02, 2006
AOL charges for sending bulk emails
America Online is vowing to carry out its plans to institute fees for mass senders of e-mail, despite protests from groups representing 15 million people that claim the move will stifle communications instead of merely halting spam.
There are several groups that claim that introducing the fee for the sending of bulk emails may stifle the communications of many businesses. However, AOL believes that introducing this system and fees will reduce the chances of spammers being located on their network.
It is not expected to be an impact on household users of the internet as the model will have an allowance of so many free outgoing emails. It is expected to can the spammers as it will uneconomical to use AOL for spamming.
# posted by Peter Saville - IT Consultant @ 3:03 AM 
