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From: Frank A. Coluccio	2/3/2006 5:57:41 PM
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AOL's New Email Certification Program: Good Mail or Goodfellas? L-Soft's Eric Thomas, Says Decision Threatens to Shake the Foundations of Internet Communication Friday, February 03, 2006 Bethesda, MD - infoZine - AOL®'s recent decision to require payment of "a fraction of a cent per message" to ensure delivery of email messages with images and links to AOL mailboxes threatens to cut off Internet communication at its very roots, potentially spelling the end of an era of near-free mass communication and making good email marketing practices obsolete. This as-yet unspecified fee is to be paid to email certification company Goodmail SystemsTM. Founded in 2003, Goodmail, according to its Website, "provides a new class of e-mail that identifies good mail ... so the messages can be delivered to recipients' inboxes - not junk or bulk folders." Until June 2006, senders that are unwilling or unable to pay the per-message fee will be able to continue to use AOL's Enhanced Whitelist service. After that, it's time to pay (Goodmail), or face a future of relegation to the junk folders of millions of AOL mailboxes. To accelerate the migration to Goodmail, AOL will begin reducing the number of Enhanced Whitelist participants in April. Continued at: infozine.com ------ Has anyone looking in here been following this story? Is this yet another form of armtwisting on the part of a dominant provider to have customers pay more for what technology should have been providing as a matter of its normal progression, just as increases in processing speeds and transmission capacities have been accompanied by lowered overall costs? I don't know. I'm asking. What do you think? FAC

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