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| Saturday, February 21, 2004 | |
Goodmail CEO Richard Gingras on Stamping Out Spam By Jay Lyman TechNewsWorld February 9, 2004 http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32798.html "Goodmail Systems' volume mail stamp solution does not
require wide adoption," Goodmail president and CEO Richard
Gingras told TechNewsWorld. "It provides benefits to volume mailers and consumers on an individual ISP basis. Volume mailers have told us they will use the Goodmail platform as soon as we are operational with a single ISP."  Why wouldn't it require wide adoption? What benefits
will it provide to volume mailers and consumers? Whom will
determine the 'volume mailer'?
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Posted on 02/21/04 at 00:09:45 by Phillip Fuller
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Phillip,
Interesting article. Goodmail is just one of a number of companies involved in this field.
In May, 2003, the eprivacy group unveiled something called the Trusted Email Open Standard during the Spam Forum.
This approach was championed by CAUCE and Microsoft.
It involves two elements:
* a change in the mail protocol transfer; and,
* the implementation of a trusted sender concept involving third party verification of compliance.
We have seen significant movement on the first approach with growing implementation of something called the Sender Policy Framework being championed by America Online, along with the recent unveiling of Microsoft's Caller-id For Email which tackles a different aspect of the problem and Yahoo's Domain Keys (we are still waiting for the unveiling.)
On the trusted sender approach? Email service providers will leap on this - when it gets to the stage of general acceptance by the Internet access services - so guarantees of deliverability are being honored.
Why? It will dramatically reduce the cost and workload for both ends of the spectrum while enhancing reliability.
In the interim, you might be interested to know that Aweber has added an RSS/XML feed feature for customers. Meaning publishers are beginning to see the movement.
Wishing you all the best.
Kind regards,
John Glube
Toronto, Canada
References:
Is the writing on the wall for Spam?
http://www.learnsteps4profi...
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| Sunday, February 15, 2004 | |
"Current technical and legislative solutions -- like the
CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 -- can, at best, only slow the flood
of spam. The only permanent solution to the spam problem is to charge for email." Jim Nail, Forrester Research The Answer to Stopping Spam Is in Your Wallet
By Sonia Arrison http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32830.html ===================== I've taken parts of Sonia's Article and responded. I respect Sonia's opinion, however, I'll need to disagree on some of her points. A new Silicon Valley-based company called Goodmail Systems, which plans to implement an e-stamps-type program through the consumer's ISP so that the transition will be seamless. One service provider -- Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) -- already has indicated interest in using the system, so time will tell how well it will work. In the beginning, Goodmail says, it will set a default price of 1 U.S. cent to enter a user's inbox. Can anyone say "Price Increase", especially IF (or, after)
GoodMail gets established? Guard your credit card :)
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Posted on 02/15/04 at 15:21:55 by Phillip Fuller
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John R. Levine, Taughannock Networks, wrote an article on the E-Stamp technology that sheds a lot of light on this subject. I highly recommend it's reading. It's a PDF file so you'll need Adobe to read it: http://www.taugh.com/eposta... Bottom line... E-Stamps will fail.
I have another avenue for all to consider. I use the email for support groups. I am a manic depressive/post traumatic stress syndrom person with Fibromyalgia. My support group is my life line. There are so many wonderful groups on line that will be no more if this goes through. I heard 5 cents a mail....I am not rich and at this time we are living on one income. Your average middle class family would not be able to afford this. Where would we go? Most of us have Social Anxiety problems as well. As I have read over and over again.IF YOU DON"T LIKE WHAT YOU SEE IN YOUR MAil HIT DELETE!
Home Bound/Marketing Manager Linda
I agree that there is a problem with spam particularly the pornography that comes cloaked as legitimate e-mail, however I do not agree that the solution is to charge money for this. It seems that once again "Big Brother" is getting into the act and we need at all costs to keep the internet free. It is very ironic that when the governor of Virginia signed in July 2003 what was one of the most strict anti spam laws, he did it where? I was not at all surprised to see that he was signing it at AOL Headquarters !
PeakPerformance Ken
http://shrinkmylink.com/cog
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| Friday, February 06, 2004 | |
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| Monday, February 02, 2004 | |
I saw something in town the other day that just really struck me
as funny. Not only that, however, it really nailed home a strong
lesson for me about how to make more money.
I was driving down main street past this old building. I don't
know exactly what the building had been used for, possibly a
warehouse or something along that line.
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Posted on 02/02/04 at 22:38:33 by Phillip Fuller
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Good point Phillip. Our attitude is so important in every aspect of our daily lives.
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Interesting article. Goodmail is just one of a number of companies involved in this field.
In May, 2003, the eprivacy group unveiled something called the Trusted Email Open Standard during the Spam Forum.
This approach was championed by CAUCE and Microsoft.
It involves two elements:
* a change in the mail protocol transfer; and,
* the implementation of a trusted sender concept involving third party verification of compliance.
We have seen significant movement on the first approach with growing implementation of something called the Sender Policy Framework being championed by America Online, along with the recent unveiling of Microsoft's Caller-id For Email which tackles a different aspect of the problem and Yahoo's Domain Keys (we are still waiting for the unveiling.)
On the trusted sender approach? Email service providers will leap on this - when it gets to the stage of general acceptance by the Internet access services - so guarantees of deliverability are being honored.
Why? It will dramatically reduce the cost and workload for both ends of the spectrum while enhancing reliability.
In the interim, you might be interested to know that Aweber has added an RSS/XML feed feature for customers. Meaning publishers are beginning to see the movement.
Wishing you all the best.
Kind regards,
John Glube
Toronto, Canada
References:
Is the writing on the wall for Spam?
http://www.learnsteps4profi...