Microsoft Wants to Protect You With Windows Live OneCare
An urban myth sort of comes to life.
If you are a devoted reader of Snopes.com – and who isn’t – then you are familiar with the myth about the Postal Service (or some other arm of government) planning to charge a five cent tax on every email. Well, darned if AOL & Yahoo! didn’t look at this idea and see it as a workable one. The companies are set to unveil the equivalent of a private lane on the information super highway. (Bet you haven’t heard it called that in a while. It’s amazing how much dust I am willing to move in order to strain for a bad metaphor.) Companies that pay .25 cents and “promise to contact only people who have agreed to receive their messages” (yeah, I believe that) will get the ability to bypass various SPAM filters. The rest of us – and companies that don’t feel like being shaken down – will still travel in the electronic equivalent of steerage.
There has been some actual dispute over whether or how the comments button on this page still works, but apparently it does. I invite you to try for yourself. Also, for those of you seeking even more allegedly humorous fare allow me to direct you to my other blog, Collateral Damage, which makes fun of marketing.
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