Considering that AOL and Yahoo both have issues with blocking legitimate
E-mail, and Yahoo is just about the most exploited service provider on
the planet, responsible for a great number of phishing and Nigerian
scams, I find it quite hypocritical for them to in the business of
charging companies for the right to spam their customers. This is
really what this is all about.
The BondedSender program is much the same. They charge companies with
spam problems a fee for protection, but they market the service to users
like us as a way to validate the legitimacy of what they bond. If
anything, a bonded IP is more likely to spam than one that is not
bonded. Once when I reported the spam service Virtumundo to
BondedSender for spamming, their response was to keep them bonded only
for the IP address that they used to send to HotMail accounts. What do
you think that was all about? IronPort also of course owns SpamCop and
sells boxes that some spammers use for bulk-mailing.
I get the impression that this is just Yahoo and AOL trying to profit
from two groups of bulk-mailers, 1) ones that feel it necessary to
protect their campaigns from being blacklisted by these services because
Yahoo and AOL are difficult or even impossible for them to deal with
when users repeatedly report legitimate E-mail for being spam, and 2)
spammers, yep, AOL and Yahoo now want to get in on the BondedSender
model and profit from spamming.
Matt
Dave Doherty wrote:
I'd like to charge senders a penny per email. Wouldn't you? That is
the old post office model.
I just don't think that goodmail has the right model.
-d
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