[Gllug] Paying to send email..

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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Alain Williams murmured woefully:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 01:40:52PM -0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 
>> AOL tell their users that commercial emails that are not QA'ed by their
>> system are likely to be bogus
>> 
>> BigBank finds users delete their emails
>> 
>> BigBank pays AOL $0.25 per email to ensure readers pay attention when they
>> are being warned they are at overdraft limit
> 
> BigBank then charges customer $25 for sending email.

What currently happens is this:

- BigBank charges consumer $25 for sending {foo} by email
- a big batch of {foo}s get marked as spam and doesn't arrive,
  loading the ISP's spamfilters
- the users are mightily pissed off; they paid for {foo} and
  now it hasn't turned up

The bonded sender idea is meant to fix this.

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