Toll Gate on the Information Superhighway

By Roger on February 5, 2006 3:28 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Yahoo and AOL have announced plans for a preferred spammer program, where by a sender can pay fractions of a cent per email and bypass all filters. Its not clear whether this program will actually whitelist unsolicited commercial email or if it will only whitelist valid email from participating companies.

This new plan would appear to be an abandonment of Yahoo Domain Keys and Microsoft Sender ID.

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