New York Times has an article today about AOL and Yahoo starting to charge commercial senders a fee of 1/4 to 1 cent per e-mail to bypass their spam filters.
This is said to affect not just bulk mailers who get an effective way around the improving spam filters, but also any vendor, selling for example videos, who wants to send a delivery confirmation or shipping notification to a customer after purchase.
Of course, if you're lucky, you'll get them through for free anyway. Unless AOL or Yahoo comes up short in their quarterly revenues, in which case the "spam" filters may be modified to remove all message with any variation of "order confirmation", etc., unless paid for.
In other news today (mentioned in the same article), executives of several large telecommunications companies, including BellSouth and AT& T, suggested that they should be paid not only by the subscribers to their Internet services but also by companies that send large files to those subscribers, including music and video clips.
"So you have SBC DSL but want to use Vonage for your phone needs? So sorry, they haven't paid their protection money this month, so we had to turn them off. But we have the same service for only 50% more, just call 1-800-EAT-STUFF."
There are rumors that Google is buying up dark fiber (unused optical fiber capacity, which is plentiful thanks to more efficient technology) across the country, in order to be able to "bypass" The Phone Company, with Wi-Fi or Wireless MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) for access points.
"Bypass" is how Microwave Communications Inc. got started. They started the modern telecommunications revolution by offering companies a way around the very high priced Phone Company monopoly.
Later they changed their name to MCI, were successful for a long time, but finally bought by The Phone Company (a part of same old Bell Company currently known as Verizon).
Let's hope Google can hold out at least as long as MCI. That will require outbidding The Phone Company in purchasing more politicians, but that should be easy for those who know K Street in D.C.
In unrelated news, it was stated in today's L.A. Times that of the 2 million new jobs credited to President Bush's massively deficit-fueling tax cuts, 2.8 million were government jobs...
The government of course doesn't increase hiring based on "its owners' income tax cuts", so it seems that the result of Bush's gargantuan deficit increase is a net loss of 800,000 jobs.
This was contrasted against the previous President's policies that, if one used the same measure of success, were all a cause of the 18 million new jobs created during his first six years.
Ya'll have a nice day now, and enjoy the Super Bowl Commercials!
This is said to affect not just bulk mailers who get an effective way around the improving spam filters, but also any vendor, selling for example videos, who wants to send a delivery confirmation or shipping notification to a customer after purchase.
Of course, if you're lucky, you'll get them through for free anyway. Unless AOL or Yahoo comes up short in their quarterly revenues, in which case the "spam" filters may be modified to remove all message with any variation of "order confirmation", etc., unless paid for.
In other news today (mentioned in the same article), executives of several large telecommunications companies, including BellSouth and AT& T, suggested that they should be paid not only by the subscribers to their Internet services but also by companies that send large files to those subscribers, including music and video clips.
"So you have SBC DSL but want to use Vonage for your phone needs? So sorry, they haven't paid their protection money this month, so we had to turn them off. But we have the same service for only 50% more, just call 1-800-EAT-STUFF."
There are rumors that Google is buying up dark fiber (unused optical fiber capacity, which is plentiful thanks to more efficient technology) across the country, in order to be able to "bypass" The Phone Company, with Wi-Fi or Wireless MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) for access points.
"Bypass" is how Microwave Communications Inc. got started. They started the modern telecommunications revolution by offering companies a way around the very high priced Phone Company monopoly.
Later they changed their name to MCI, were successful for a long time, but finally bought by The Phone Company (a part of same old Bell Company currently known as Verizon).
Let's hope Google can hold out at least as long as MCI. That will require outbidding The Phone Company in purchasing more politicians, but that should be easy for those who know K Street in D.C.
In unrelated news, it was stated in today's L.A. Times that of the 2 million new jobs credited to President Bush's massively deficit-fueling tax cuts, 2.8 million were government jobs...
The government of course doesn't increase hiring based on "its owners' income tax cuts", so it seems that the result of Bush's gargantuan deficit increase is a net loss of 800,000 jobs.
This was contrasted against the previous President's policies that, if one used the same measure of success, were all a cause of the 18 million new jobs created during his first six years.
Ya'll have a nice day now, and enjoy the Super Bowl Commercials!