[ SHOWGSD-L ] What Goodmail is.....AOHell0--LONG!
- From: "Ginger Cleary" <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:10:24 -0500
<http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/12735/>Click on
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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
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.
AOL's implementation of Goodmail's CertifiedEmailTM service, announced
January 30th, was greeted with sharp criticism from email service providers
and marketing experts. L-Soft, the company behind LISTSERV®, the product
that launched the email list management industry 20 years ago, is one of
the few potential beneficiaries of AOL's move, since its customers would
have no options but to purchase the necessary software upgrade to support
Goodmail certification, an upgrade that L-Soft could choose to license on
very profitable terms. Yet there are no sounds of champagne glasses
clinking to be heard in L-Soft's boardroom.
<SNIP>
Discussion communities such as the award-winning international Association
for Cancer Online Resources (ACOR) are also speaking out. "In essence, this
is going to block every AOL subscriber suffering from any form of cancer
from receiving potentially life-saving information they may not be able to
get from any other source, simply because a non-profit like ACOR - which
serves more than 55,000 cancer patients and caregivers every day - cannot
afford to pay the fee. There must be a better solution," says Gilles
Frydman, ACOR's President.
Thomas concludes, "While I have the deepest sympathy and understanding for
the situation AOL is in, the introduction of the Internet's first email tax
ever is simply not the right solution to the spam problem."
Source: L-Soft
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<http://www.xeal.com/articles/AOLs-New-Email-Certification-Program.htm>
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Ginger Cleary, Rome, GA
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