{"id":49,"date":"2006-02-07T12:14:49","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T12:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/49"},"modified":"2014-04-11T22:38:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T21:38:45","slug":"verified-email-at-a-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/49","title":{"rendered":"Verified email, at a cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4684942.stm\">announcement<\/a> the other day that AOL and Yahoo have a wizard wheeze for solving the spam problem. They will charge non-spamming bulk email senders a fraction of a penny per email to guarantee delivery. <a href=\"http:\/\/diamondgeezer.blogspot.com\/2006_02_01_diamondgeezer_archive.html#113927064984815479\">dg<\/a> [link edited 21 Feb] has a good commentary on this pointing out that it would mean the end of email as we know it and seems to be more of a revenue generator than a service for customers.<\/p>\n<p>The catch is that, other than these premium emails, everything else will go into the junk box unless it is from known correspondents. So don&#8217;t expect to get mail from someone that you haven&#8217;t pre-authorised, such as long lost cousin Gertie or the confirmation that the widget that you just bought is on its way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen the announcement the other day that AOL and Yahoo have a wizard wheeze for solving the spam problem. They will charge non-spamming bulk email senders a fraction of a penny per email to guarantee delivery. dg [link edited 21 Feb] has a good commentary on this pointing out that it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}