On 7 Feb 2006 at 0:30, Eric Thomas wrote: > An update on the AOL pay-per-message issue. I have given a round of press > interviews today and it looks like there is going to be a lot of coverage > today and tomorrow. AOL have backed off on their plans to phase out the > (free) whitelist by June 30, but it seems clear that their long-term > direction remains pay-per-message. Our local news actually ran a bit on it yesterday, said that the charges would only apply to "commercial" mailers like mortgage companies and so on. Like I want the only messages in my email box to be those who can pay to send them (spam) I also wonder if they are going to want to pay a penny a message to send to people who will turn them off? I agree that something needs to be done about spam, but why not just make what they have more user customizable? I know with my domain provider, I had to tell them to turn off whatever it was they were using and I filter things myself instead. Liz Marr