[extropy-chat] Email Postage

[Adrian Tymes]

The companies that adopt it, only think their size gives them a
stranglehold on the Internet.  There are just too many people on
the "outside" - and likely always will be.

That said, if Yahoo! adopts a minimal approach - that is, the
only things that paid email guarantees are that the message will
be delivered, and will be delivered to the inbox instead of the
spam folder, that might be a viable way to test the service
without losing customers.  Rejecting, altering, or in any way
failing to deliver unpaid email (to the standards of today,
which do allow for spam filtering) just because it's unpaid is
likely to run into trouble...but then, AOL has been hemorraging
customers for years, and survives in large part by replacing
them with new people who have never used the Internet before.

--- "Keith M. Elis" <zarathustra_winced at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This topic is one that many people have mixed feelings about.
> Companies
> appear to be seriously weighing the idea of charging for email
> delivery
> in certain cases. Frankly some form of email postage is probably a
> good
> idea for the long-term viability of the medium.
> 
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/05AOL.html?ex=1296795600&en=6efa03d1cbfacf9e&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat
>