Posted on 14:40, February 6th, 2006 by Even if central filtering of e-mail is controversial, the question remains: Who profits from this? It is not the user of those mailboxes. If newsletters are caught by spam-filters, then they are either designed badly, or the filters are too strict.
Right now, no mail that would be delivered will be blocked. But we know how these things work: After successfully introducing e-postage for priority-e-mail, the desire will rise to deliver regular e-mail for a extra fee, too.
“Extra fee” because even today, we are paying the internet providers (like AOL) and freemail-services (like Yahoo) for the delivery of our e-mail. Either by paying our fees, or by bearing the ads they insert into our mail.
I am glad that back then in the previous millenium, the AOL-dialer (which is not existent for Linux) has driven me to other internet providers that follow the standards. I just hope that they will continue to do so in the future.
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