Leaving aside the scam email spam problem -- it seems true that the guaranteed delivery option would seem to be a cheap way to bypass the current expense ($0.39) per letter (or somewhat less for bundled bulk fliers -- anyone know these costs?) for what one would view as normal commercial snail mail spam (as opposed to email scam spam).
<br><br>What local retailers would want is the email addresses organized by zip code / address but I have to believe that this is available for lots of people. Of course this doesn't eliminate the problem of the people who do currently and might never have email addresses.
<br><br>But the point being made about a possible increase in commercial mail in ones INBOX is valid. If AOL & Yahoo do not provide ways of enforcing filtering of non-whitelisted email it will simply drive people to use email systems that do allow that.
<br><br>Anyone know whether the various large userbase email systems allow auto-forwarding? (So you could retain an old email address but pass things along to more sophisticated filtering systems.)<br><br>Robert<br><br>