Despite superb programming to the contrary, the world is still flat.

AOL and Yahoo are taking a tactic to "reduce spam" which will fail. The will give "preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay from a quarter of a cent to 1 cent each to have them delivered." So, if I pay the fee to AOL, the mail I send will go straight to the receiver's inbox, bypassing spam filters that send the mail to the bulk mail. This is a tactic which will be abused, and increase the amount of spam in an AOL inbox. Hopefully gMail doesn't seek to follow in Yahoo/AOL's footsteps.

This is almost as bad as AT&Ts suggestion for a multitiered Internet.

AOL and Yahoo put price on e-mail

As always,

Don't die.