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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000095.txt from 2006/02

From: Gary Smith <gary622@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Email 'postage'
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:18:25 -0500

So as I see it AOL and Yahoo will accept money from people who want to
bypass their spam filters. And what kind of people want to bypass spam
filters?

That's right...

Given that millions of us operate our own domains and server spaces, I
can't see how this scheme will be a model of how to clean up spam. But
I *can* see how AOL and Yahoo will clean up selling "spam free spam"
shots to people who want to solicit their members. Or maybe I'm just
looking at this wrong. But given that I use a Yahoo account already
for companies to send me receipts etc. when I don't quite trust them
with my "real" address, and those receipts, etc are getting through
the spam filters just fine, again I just can't see a motivation for
doing this other than a)AOL and Yahoo make money and b)companies get
to send UCE to subscribers.

I think if spam can ever be defeated or slowed down, it will be
through a transition to a system that verifies the sender. In other
words, it will be up to the sender to provide verification through
their server, NOT up to the e-mail provider to charge at the gate and
let anything that pays through.

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