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Yahoo and AOL to Charge for Sending E-Mails

February 6, 2006

Yahoo Inc. and America Online (AOL), two of the greatest e-mail account providers are planning to fish out money from the pockets of their users for sending e-mails. Paying a charge for the e-mails sent would be assured a direct entry into the mail box of the recipient without being first to have traveled through the spam filters or ending up in the junk mail.

Both Yahoo and AOL have planned this in order to cut down on the spam in the mail boxes. It is noteworthy that Yahoo and AOL have been using this system of filtering the junk or the spam since quite long. This new method of charging the e-mails from the senders would ensure that only proper legitimate mails reach the mailboxes of the recipients.

The new charge ranging from 1/4 th of a cent to 1 cent would be helpful in sieving the unwelcome advertisements and identity-theft scams. In return of this payment, e-mail senders would be guaranteed a legitimate and authentic status to their mails with a seal of legitimacy and would gain direct access to the mailbox of the recipient indicating that the mail is genuine and legitimate. Generally what happens is that these companies filter e-mails by searching for such keywords that are generally used by spammers. This way many legitimate e-mails sent by the online businessmen, end up as junk which harms the business of these people who rely entirely on e-mails for running their online business. Thus on the request of such customers these companies have found an improvised way to send authentic mails to the mailboxes of the recipients by charging some fee.