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I think this is my first posting at this network, though I have been a keen reader for sometime.
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Given the comments already posted concerning AOL subscribers, I thought I would flag up the much more worrying entry of Yahoo into the fray.
Many of my subscribers prefer to use a Yahoo address for their subscriptions, as indeed, do I, so this development, I feel could prove to be very damaging to us 'smaller guys'. I personally am starting to look at alternative delivery systems.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/art/email/goodmail.htm
America Online (AOL) and Yahoo, two of the world's largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs), have engaged Goodmail Systems (www.goodmailsystems.com) to implement a sender certified e-mail system over the next month or two. Each message sent through Goodmail is imbedded with a security token that will be read by participating ISPs, which then mark the e-mail as certified and slip it past any spam filters, directly into the recipient's inbox. AOL announced that it would receive a share of the revenue, but assured CNN that such revenue would be "modest" and used to beef up the company's anti-spam efforts.

Goodmail Systems CertifiedEmail Acceptable Use and Security Policy v 1.06 (www.goodmailsystems.com/aup.pdf) outlines what e-mail practices they deem acceptable. They charge a non-refundable application fee for accreditation of $399 ($199 through July 31, 2006). Costs for accredited commercial e-mailers to send e-mail is then 0.2¢ to 0.4¢ per e-mail, depending upon volume. Qualifying non-profits will not be charged through 2006.

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