Top 5 ISPs To Start Charging For Email. Evil bastards.

[BlooInBloo]

Under the cover of "guaranteed delivery" and "spam protection". Evil fucks.

http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39167420,00.htm

"Five of the largest ISPs in the US are to start charging businesses for guaranteed delivery of their emails, in a bid to combat spam.

Goodmail Systems, which provides a service called CertifiedEmail, has signed up Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable's Road Runner and Verizon as customers. Emails certified using the system are marked with a blue ribbon to show they come from a trusted source, thus bypassing spam filters - a privilege that will cost the sender a quarter of a US cent per email."

[liberal N proud]

1. Anything to bleed us dry!

They are blood sucking greedy bastards

[Deja Q]

2. Damn. I'm gonna miss those adverts to have my bra cup size quadruple...

:sarcasm:

"Five of the largest ISPs in the US are to start charging businesses for guaranteed delivery of their emails, in a bid to combat spam.

Let's wait for regular users to get charged for e-mails before freaking out. But I do understand future concerns.

[Rex]

3. Fuck them.

Greed will kill us all one day.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. It's just for businesses ... today

In other news, Bill Gates has been floating the suggestion to compel computer programmers to get licensed.

I guess that the plan to import 5 million foreign programmers under the H1B system wasn't working out as well as he had hoped.

--p!

[TreasonousBastard]

5. So, there's a problem with eBay...

paying a wee bit to make sure they don't fall into the spam traps with the phishers spoofing their sites?

I'm not sure I have a problem with my bank, shopping sites, and others paying a bit for some assurance the emails I get aren't fraudulent. Helps the both of us.

[BlooInBloo]

6. lolol!