Guest straycat Posted February 6, 2006 Posted February 6, 2006 According to the article below AOL's new policy places them as a pimp for the spammers. Now under the "cover of authority" the spam producers can continue heir dirty work while AOL earns income of the illegal activity of spamming. SAN FRANCISCO — America Online will begin charging businesses to send commercial e-mail to its users in the first wide-scale use of authenticated e-mail to reduce spam. But some marketers affected by the plan, set to start in several weeks, call it e-mail taxation designed to create a new stream of revenue for AOL. The entire article can be read here http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computer...htm?POE=TECISVA Quote