June 22, 2004

ISPs' Proposal to Exterminate Mailing Lists

Greetings. Do you run an Internet mailing list? If so, you'd better have plenty of spare change handy!

AOL, Yahoo, Earthlink, MS, et al., are proposing a limit of 500 e-mail messages sent per day as an "anti-spam" measure. Of course, this won't stop spammers, but it would utterly obliterate all but the smallest legitimate mailing lists -- unless, one assumes, you pony up extra money for additional e-mail allocations. Spam could turn out to be the holy grail of excuses for ISPs looking for a way to move into the lucrative world of usage-sensitive pricing.

You may wish to immediately let your ISP know how you feel about such proposals!

Hold on to your wallets.

--Lauren--

Posted by Lauren at June 22, 2004 06:55 PM | Permalink
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