Just forwarding some info...
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As you may have seen in the press, many groups, including my own, have expressed concern with plans by AOL and Yahoo to charge payment from third-party senders to reach their customers' inboxes. I'm writing in the hope that you will be one of our list of ISPs and mailbox providers who publicly commit not to follow the same path - and who we highlight to consumers and the media as one of the good actors in the industry.
We've asked AOL to re-consider their plans at http://www.dearaol.com/ .
That open letter has been joined by six hundred organizations, representing over 15 million members, including individuals like Craig Newmark from Craig's List and organizations like the Service Roundtable, CSPR, the AFL-CIO, Gun Owners of America, MoveOn.org, EFF, and Oxfam America. Members of the coalition have gathered over 350,000 signatories in support.
As part of this campaign, we're collecting names of ISPs and mailbox providers who are committed to delivering their customers' email without charging the sender. We'll be publicizing these ISPs to coalition members and to the press as companies that do the right thing.
To that end, would your company consider agreeing to the language below?
"We will not accept payment to bypass our anti-spam filters, nor
charge senders to reach our users."
Note that this wording neither excludes the possibility of adopting certification or authentication systems (all of the current certification systems such as Bonded Sender and Habeas would be acceptable, as would Goodmail under a different contractual arrangement than the current agreement with AOL).
We've already had sign-on on these principles from Google's GMail, and we'd be delighted to include you in the growing list of companies we'll be publicizing.
Let me know if you'd be interested in signing on. If you have any questions, you can contact the organizer of this campaign, Danny O'Brien, at [email protected], or call him on +1 408 480 3412.
PS - Here's an editorial and a couple of articles that have been written about this issue so far:
Google will not follow AOL so no payment system planned for Gmail http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/
wpn-60-20060420NoGoodmailForGmail.html
Paid e-mail will lead to separate, unequal systems http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...n/14023726.htm
Diverse Groups Team Up to Fight E-Mail Fee (AP)
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/print?id=1668695
Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com>
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As you may have seen in the press, many groups, including my own, have expressed concern with plans by AOL and Yahoo to charge payment from third-party senders to reach their customers' inboxes. I'm writing in the hope that you will be one of our list of ISPs and mailbox providers who publicly commit not to follow the same path - and who we highlight to consumers and the media as one of the good actors in the industry.
We've asked AOL to re-consider their plans at http://www.dearaol.com/ .
That open letter has been joined by six hundred organizations, representing over 15 million members, including individuals like Craig Newmark from Craig's List and organizations like the Service Roundtable, CSPR, the AFL-CIO, Gun Owners of America, MoveOn.org, EFF, and Oxfam America. Members of the coalition have gathered over 350,000 signatories in support.
As part of this campaign, we're collecting names of ISPs and mailbox providers who are committed to delivering their customers' email without charging the sender. We'll be publicizing these ISPs to coalition members and to the press as companies that do the right thing.
To that end, would your company consider agreeing to the language below?
"We will not accept payment to bypass our anti-spam filters, nor
charge senders to reach our users."
Note that this wording neither excludes the possibility of adopting certification or authentication systems (all of the current certification systems such as Bonded Sender and Habeas would be acceptable, as would Goodmail under a different contractual arrangement than the current agreement with AOL).
We've already had sign-on on these principles from Google's GMail, and we'd be delighted to include you in the growing list of companies we'll be publicizing.
Let me know if you'd be interested in signing on. If you have any questions, you can contact the organizer of this campaign, Danny O'Brien, at [email protected], or call him on +1 408 480 3412.
PS - Here's an editorial and a couple of articles that have been written about this issue so far:
Google will not follow AOL so no payment system planned for Gmail http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/
wpn-60-20060420NoGoodmailForGmail.html
Paid e-mail will lead to separate, unequal systems http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...n/14023726.htm
Diverse Groups Team Up to Fight E-Mail Fee (AP)
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/print?id=1668695
Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com>
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