I guess I'm not reading this the same way.  If AOL wants people to buy
a "stamp" to get their e-mail delivered to their customers, the only
people that hurts is their customers.  Their customers are the ones
losing the information from the rest of us.  If I want to buy the stamp
to send my e-mail to their customer (like that will happen! :-) I can
choose to do that.  We do that all the time with paper mail.

It seems like this will make my job a whole lot easier. Instead of
telling my people "yeah, I'll spend hours and hours trying to get AOL to
accept e-mail from us, again" I can just say "AOL has decided that you
have to buy a stamp to send e-mail to their customers, do you want to
do that or find some other way to communicate with your friends
there?".  Since I doubt we will ever get in the business of selling
those stamps, this seems like this will encourage people who want to
communicate with us to leave AOL in a hurry.

Of course, coming from an educational institution, communicating with
AOL customers isn't a high priority of mine anyway.

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Rich Greenberg wrote:

> On: Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:14:46AM -0500,Hiler, John Wrote:
>
> } ?mer K?ker,
> }
> } United we stand, divided we fall.
> }
> } I do not want any organization tampering with my personal mail. I, as a user, want the control to be able to accept or deny mail.
> }
> } This "Goodmail" idea is just an AOL idea to make money off of spam.
>
> [...]
>
> } AOL will re-think this if they are smart.
>
> MAY already be happening.  It was reported on another listowners list
> that AOL tech support are telling people who call that it is a hoax.
>
> --
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>

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