salut pour ton info. si cela s'avérait sans doute des problèmes pour nos listes nb: Éric Thomas est un des développeurs de Listserv, un des logiciels de serveur de listes les plus performants et le splus répandus Luc > L-Soft has joined the growing number of companies that protest against > AOL's recent announcement that it will phase out its Enhanced Whitelist > service in June in favour of Goodmail CertifiedEmail, which carries an as > yet unspecified per-message fee. In a nutshell, companies like L-Soft get > on the AOL whitelist by following good e-mail practices, such as cleaning > up dead addresses, making it easy for people to leave mailing lists, and > of course not sending any spam. This is all going to be thrown out the > window and replaced with the payment of hard currency to Goodmail. People > who can afford to pay this fee will have the privilege of reaching AOL > subscribers, others will end up in junk folders. Yahoo is expected to > follow down the same path. > > I have nothing against certification as an additional tool in the fight > against spam. Knowing that message such and such genuinely comes from its > purported sender can help improve the accuracy of your spam filter. I > also understand that certification costs money, unless sponsored by the > government or by volunteers donating their time to the cause. But I think > per-message certification fees make as much sense as per-click SSL > certificate fees. I also find that the "rumoured" rates that have been > mentioned in some of the press articles are totally out of proportion > with the service being provided. The fee is several times what providers > currently charge for the service of hosting the mailing list, removing > dead addresses, making backups, etc. As an illustration, a typical hobby > list would cost on the order of $500-1000 a year. An active list could > cost $10k or more a year. This may not be much for the advertisement > manager of a large company, not when compared to print adverts, but what > about the rest of us? I know L-Soft hosting customers cannot afford the > price increase that would be necessary to cover an identification fee of > five figures PER DAY. > > And for many of us, this identification fee is not even an option. To be > eligible for Goodmail accreditation, you must "have business headquarters > located in the United States or Canada." Foreigners need not bother. You > must also "have at least a 6 month mailing history from [the] IP" address > from which you are sending your newsletter. This of course makes it very > difficult to switch ISPs if you are not satisfied with the one you are > using. A new ISP means a new IP address, and Goodmail will then shut you > down for "at least 6 months." A nice 'protection' plan for the ISP, but a > disaster for customers. > > Anyway, here is a link to our full press release, which has been sent to > major publications today. And I want to salute the courage of the > executives at hosting-only companies that have spoken up and protested, > knowing full well that they would go out of business in a matter of > months were their access to AOL and Yahoo mailboxes to be cut off in > retaliation. In the post-Enron era, this kind of corporate courage is > very rare indeed. I stand on much firmer ground, as hosting is only a > side activity at L-Soft, but I can still imagine what must have gone > through their mind before they hit the send button. > > http://www.lsoft.com/news/aol-goodmail.asp > > Eric >