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Old February-22nd-2006, 10:02 PM   #7
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This petition is both legit and, just as important, current

At the end of MoveOn's "fuller explanation":

–Eli Pariser, Noah T. Winer, Adam Green, and the MoveOn.org Civic Action team
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Sources:

1. "Postage is due for companies sending e-mail," New York Times, February 4, 2006
http://tinyurl.com/8mfus
Edit: I replaced MoveOn's link with one that works for me. Tsk, tsk, MoveOn. The NYT article is dated 2-5-06, and corrections appear at the end.

2. "AOL's New Email Certification Program: Good Mail or Goodfellas?" L-Soft Release, February 2, 2006
http://www.lsoft.com/news/aol-goodmail.asp

3. "AOL, Yahoo and Goodmail: Taxing Your Email for Fun and Profit," Electronic Frontier Foundation, February 8, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1454

And here's one that I found (AFP via Yahoo News, 2-7-06):

Yahoo and AOL to charge firms for guaranteed email delivery

Note that Yahoo and Goodmail have the same idea. Half the purpose of the petition to AOL is to deter other e-mail providers from doing it.

(Wow, this is weird. How did my "edited" notice below get blue?)

Last edited by bluenoter; February-27th-2006 at 03:50 PM.
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