It has started & picking up steam... ISPs are charging for business email delivery...LINK

[Blackhatjack]

http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fs%2Fzd%2F20070607%2Ftc_zd%2F209123

"Four major Internet service providers on Thursday joined a program that charges major business and e-commerce sites for guaranteed delivery of their e-mails.

Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable's Road Runner and Verizon will support Goodmail Systems' CertifiedEmail program, which charges companies a quarter of a penny per message to ensure that their e-mails bypass spam filters and reach their destination. Nonprofit organizations are offered an 80 percent discount on that fee.

Yahoo! and America Online joined CertifiedEmail when the program kicked off in May 2006."

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It is a short hop, skip and a jump from charging businesses and nonprofits to charging everybody else. Sounds like a small amount of money at 1/4 cent per message, but it will be a huge winfall for ISPs, and once the model is instituted you will have 2 classes of emails. Which class do you think might not get delivered as quickly?

It is similar to charging postage for email.

[Nikki Stone1]

1. We're gonna miss the 41cent stamp by the time email charges start mounting

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[Jackpine Radical]

2. I have mixed feelings about this.

Getting beyond email for a moment, think of what this could do for access to information. I do types of research that often lead me to sites where there are professional journals with expensive subscription rates. If I want the article I have to go physically to a university library and copy it, or I have to maybe pay $10 or $20 to download a single article from the journal site--and then maybe find that the article isn't quite what I was looking for. Imagine a world in which you are free to gain access to these information sources for a penny or 2; the journal gets a LOT of cheap hits instead of a few expensive ones, and more people have access to more information.

[aquart]

3. How do you get there from email charges?

Sounds like apples and oranges. What did I miss?

[Jackpine Radical]

7. You missed the act of prestidigitation

whereby I converted the apples into oranges. I'm talking about the general principle of setting up systems that collect small but numerous tolls on certain sites. I'm talking about ways of democratizing the availability of information. I'm springboarding from the email idea through a process of free association. Mind your Emerson: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

[rocktivity]

4. The internet played too much of a roll inthe November Dem victory

for the Rethugs to allow it to happen again.

Stay tuned for even more erosions of the public access to the Internet.

:(
rocknation

[Blackhatjack]

5. It is the creation of a new model, premium class email and second class email....

There will always be good reasons to hype the 'new and improved but slightly less expensive' product rollout. However, once the businesses are charged for this service, one of two things has to happen.

Either, individuals will be charged for a similar service over and above their present ISP charges;

OR, the service provided to individuals will 'downgraded' in quality in comparison to those paying more.

It will be just like net neutrality.

[LiberalFighter]

6. So spammers can get guaranteed delivery

[Blackhatjack]

8. It reminds me of the tel company selling 'caller id' and selling telemarketers serv to block their #

I always felt like it was wrong for the telephone company to sell customers the 'caller id service' and then turn right around and sell the telemarketers a service which allows them to continue making the annoying calls without being identified.

I am sure if there is money to be made, and you know it is, that this service will be made available to spammers --for a price.

The point people are likely to miss is that this involves possibly millions of dollars to the ISPs.

[KansDem]

9. Wasn't the creation of the internet publicly funded as a defense strategy?

How did a few corporations get their hooks into this public resouce...?

...to ensure that their e-mails bypass spam filters and reach their destination.

Oh, great! Now someone will pay to put spam in my email box!!! :grr:


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[Blackhatjack]

10. Exactly ...For 91 cents Nigerian scammers can send me a new email every day for a year! n/t