[AOL and other ISPs] will naturally tend to go towards what brings them revenue. They can spend money to keep their regular spam filters up to date but they can make money by neglecting spam filters and pushing more senders to pay for guaranteed delivery. |
Deciding what's wanted mail and unwanted mail is a tricky issue, and one that ultimately we think users should decide. |
For most people, geeks or not, modern life is just this incredibly complex problem amenable to no good obvious solution. But we can peck around the edges of it; we can make little shortcuts. And once you point out that everyone does that, once you coin the term, it's really easy to pile a whole lot of shared behaviors into one neat pile. |
I missed a couple of gallops with her so she isn't right at her top. But she is going well. |
If it means we get a level playing field then I'm all for it. |
Paul (Perry) has a great record with sprinting three-year-olds, especially in this race. |
Perversely, AOL's pay-to-send system would actually reward AOL financially for degrading free email for regular customers as they attempt to push people into paid-mail. AOL should be working to ensure its spam filters don't block legitimate mail, not charging protection money to bypass those filters and offering band-aids to allow some select nonprofits to bypass them as well. |
Right now China has been having a lot of bad press. |
The biggest issue in China is the arbitrariness and the sudden changes. Services like Yahoo say they have to follow the rules in China , but the rules are always changing… It's like an intimidation tactic. |
This is about the spreading of news, not the publishing of news. |
We realized that the big problem was that AOL was taking some of the money. |