AOL and Yahoo plan to charge others for their own short comings
In the newest round of spam fighting tactics AOL and Yahoo plan to charge others for priority e-mailing status. Sounds like a multi-tiered e-mail system, sound familiar like SBC and Verizon’s ideas on a multi-tiered internet.
“Lets charge others to access our customers”
Basically, since AOL and Yahoo can’t seem to create a Spam filter that actually works, they want to charge other’s so their e-mail doesn’t get caught in their faulty spam system. This idea has potential but it will no doubt end up just being another issue that will get used wrong and adopted by all the big boys with dollar signs in their eyes, and in turn, will push out the little guy who is just trying to get started. I can see a lot of retailers no longer offering e-mail receipts or adding perhaps a little check box in their check out process that says ” Click here for an e-mail receipt” and charging the customer any where from 25 cents to a dollar. AOL and Yahoo say they will not charge their users for e-mail but come on, you can’t charge the big companies and not expect it to trickle down to the end users, that’s the way it works in all industries whether on the internet or not.
This just goes to defend what I have been saying for years, free e-mail from giants like AOL and Yahoo is just not good to use. I can’t count how many times I have told clients of mine or friends or even strangers that ask me or advice (yea, that actually happens quite often, odd….) to get ride of AOL, especially their e-mail, all it does is cause headaches.
Buy a domain, their cheap and e-mail for a year is even cheaper. Yea it’s not free but you will get no, or very very little, spam and you will be sure to get ALL of your e-mail, no one else will be able to dictate what e-mail you get and what you will not.
