> I was wondering, if one AOL subscriber sends email to another AOL > subscriber, will AOL have to pay the "certified Goodmail" fee to > Goodmail? Or do they have a special deal to avoid that? I think it's a safe assumption that such a message never leaves AOL - why would it? That's how internal e-mail is implemented, I dare not say everywhere because someone will prove me wrong, but almost everywhere. So it seems safe to assume that, no, they aren't going to pay to talk to themselves. > Or, lets say both AOL and Yahoo go with the Goodmail deal. Will AOL have > to pay Goodmail a fee for sending email to Yahoo, and vice versa? Or is > there some deal where email between AOL and Yahoo (and anyone else who > signs up), is exempt, while anyone else has to pay the fee? So far, I have seen no indication that AOL is going to purchase any stamps at all from Goodmail, so the answer would be no, but it is a very interesting question nonetheless. Will Goodmail customers have to pay to write to each other? I don't know the answer to that, and cannot figure it out from their web site. Eric