AOL, Yahoo Follow Bill Gates: We Don't See No Stinkin' Spam.

Posted by VISITOR on Feb 10, 2006 7:41 PM EDT
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After years of struggling to contain a growing plague of spam and its antecedents, like phishing and 419 scams, AOL and Yahoo have fallen back to the Bill Gates playbook: Charge for it. In all fairness, Gates stole the idea from the US Post Office, which profitably elevated advertising missives from "junkmail" to "Standard Mail A." It's simply a matter of perspective.

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nothing different jsusanka 0 831 Feb 11, 2006 10:54 AM

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