On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 22:12, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > > > And that is what the recent announcement is about. It concerns a means > > of ensuring delivery of "transactional" mail. This is quite different > > from "marketing" mail and it is not in the least controversial. > > > > Bank statements. Air tickets. And other stuff that is sent to millions > of people who have asked for it, who need it to catch their flight, or > get a loan, and sometimes dont get it because it gets mistaken for > phishing email, quite frequently by the user himself (you'd be surprised > how often that happens, but quite probably, as you have operated a list > for years now, that is not going to come as a surprise) :)
That's true of Yahoo, who are limiting their use of Goodmail to transactional messages, it may be true of AOL initially, due to the fact that Goodmail's existing clientele are almost entirely transactional mailers. I long ago came to the conclusion that Goodmail is running what Dr. John Levine called in his 2003 whitepaper on epostage, a "reputation purchase service", which is a reasonable and scalable subset of e-postage. Dr. Levine's paper purports to show that e-postage simply doesn't scale to the Internet as a whole. Goodmail can't ever hope to put a token on EVERY email. Thus most of the griping about it is simply mistaken. The whole thing is rather little more than a tempest in a teapot. Let Goodmail get on with it's thing so I can get my airline confirmation to that job interview with Comcast in NJ. --B -- Brian McNett: Forensic Spam Investigator Work: <http://consult.spamresource.com/> Play: <http://www.mycoinfo.com/> Online Store: <http://store.mycoinfo.com/>
