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Fatal Vector
join:2005-11-26
2 edits | The thing about AOL mail
Is that you can simply put sites you want to recieve messages from on an allowed list and they will allways hit your mail box. Needless to say, this is a very usefull feature. What is so hard about asking your subscribers to do this? This way, your messages will allways get through.
At least AOL and google are trying to do something new to deal with spam, which is entirely out of control. The fact is that untill it starts to cost spammers to send mail there will be no progress towards curbing spam. You allready see sites whining about it. Amazing what a financial incentive can do when applied properly.
You dont have to pay to send mail to AOL/google addresses. Your mail will get through anyway, but will be run through the filters. What you're really paying for is for your mail to get past fhe filters and be delivered, guaranteed.
Does anyone think that spammers wont start to pay (considering how lucrative spamming seems to be) when they can pass along the cost to the company they are spamming for? It's just another business expense. In the end, it will amount to just another revenue stream to the ISP's and mail clients having to give users controls like the AOL client does and for those users to use them. Which, of course, clueless Joe and Jane box of rocks wont do unless prodded to by their favorite sites, or, whoever provides their e mail.
It's been years since I have recieved ANY spam because I use the mail controls. It's not hard to put a site on the list untill you get the confirmation mail, or, to leave it there if you want to recieve future e mail from them.And, when that site is on your list, it bypasses the filters and gets delivered to the users main box without having to pay. It amounts to the idea that users and sites should start taking some responsibility and setting things up right. If everyone used such a list, spammers would dry up and blow away because their e mail wouldn't get through, preiod. | |
dannysdailys
join:2000-09-29
Lockport, NY
| said by Fatal Vector  :Is that you can simply put sites you want to recieve messages from on an allowed list and they will allways hit your mail box. Needless to say, this is a very usefull feature. What is so hard about asking your subscribers to do this? This way, your messages will allways get through. Because they won't. I'm on online publisher and a very large part of my mailing lists goes to AOL. If they don't all do it, I'll be bounced and my account will be flagged.
Now, I have to pay to send my free newsletter? Not in this lifetime. AOL members will suddenly be cut off from all their newletters. Clear and simple.
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Madness Takes Its Toll, Please Have Exact ChangeDan DailyOwner/Webmasterhttp://www.dannysdailys.com | |
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