AOL, Yahoo to Charge for Emails

If AOL charges for email then it's time to find another ISP. This will set the atage for broadband to reduce their charges and take over the market. Maybe it's time for the old to move aside and let progress take it's toll.

dont think its right, i just got this email address and dont think its right

yahoo india mail server not mantained properly, many mail accounts are getting locked, unable to access mails, mails bouncing too

PURBACHAL ANANDA FOUNDATION 2/32 Purbachal , Durgapur 713201, Dist. Burdwan, West Bengal, India Phone- 91 343 2552230 M-91 9832239871, http://www.karmayog.org/paf (Registered Under Societies Registration Act West Bengal XXVI of 1961 S/1L/32097) AN OASIS OF LOVE FOR CHILDREN & AGED PERSONS An Appeal Purbachal Ananda Foundation ( PAF) has come into being out of an earnest commitment and desire of a group of young social workers to accomplish a mission of their own, for the cause of those children and aged persons who are not loved and cared for by the society at large. These young persons who had some experiences in working for such people either in their own individual capacities or as volunteers in some NGOs involved in similar activities. But, through such exposures and experiences came a realization that one?s own mission as also vision can be accomplished if only such activities could be undertaken independently. Thus was ?born? PAF. We, in PAF, believe in the saying that ?work is our sole identity?. In all our activities, honesty and transparency are our commitments. It is our vow to create a ?PAF Family? where true love would be the common bond for each and everyone of our children and elderly persons who have been marginalized in the society because of their destitution and abject poverty. PAF is in its infancy now. It has started its activities with 10 children in the age- group 3-8 years (6 are children of sex-workers and 4 are street children) and 2 aged persons at a remote village called Purokonda in Bankura district of West Bengal. A dwelling unit has been constructed on the land donated by the local Gouria Math and a tube-well has been sunk along with arrangements for minimum toilet/sanitary facilities. Plans are afoot to construct another dwelling unit so that more inmates can be accommodated. PAF has also decided to undertake a program to provide formal education to children of nearby ?dom? community( who were hitherto untouchables) by making them admitted to local school and bearing the expenses for their education. Other plans under active consideration include ? After-school assistance program for poor and less meritorious students of the near-by villages? and ?Running abridged course for drop-out children of the locality?. Till now, PAF is carrying on its activities entirely with donations from well-wishing individuals, and, as expectedly, this would have to continue for the near future as well. While we are making sincere efforts towards receiving some kind of institutional funding, we also appeal to all sympathetic individuals and/or organizations for financial help. We sincerely hope that you will be kind enough to extend a helping hand to our activities by sponsoring one or more of the following activities of PAF. (i) Educational sponsorship for one school-going child for one year Rs. 2000 or US $ 50 (ii) Sponsoring one child for one year Rs. 12,000 or US $ 300 (iii) Sponsoring an aged person for one year Rs. 12,000 or US $ 300 (iv) Sponsoring a pre-primary educational centre Rs. 6,000 or US $ 150 (v) Sponsoring book ?bank for school books Rs. 3,000 or US $ 75 (vi) Sponsoring an after-school assistance program /abridged course for drop-outs Rs. 2,000 or US $ 50 (vii) Sponsoring a vocational training program for a group of 20 women Rs. 2,000 or US $ 50 CONTRACT FORM FOR SPONSORSHIP I would like to sponsor one or more of the PAF activities (please tick the appropriate one(s) above) viz., item no(s). (state whether full or part payment) ,and the amount thereof (Rs. and Rupees (in words) ) is being paid in cash by a/c cheque ( in favour of Purbachal Ananda Foundation) by dd by wired transfer(Bank a/c no. 319384 , UBI, Coke-Oven branch). Name (Mr./Ms./ Dr.) Address Phone no. E-mail address Date Signature Yours truly, Arindam Banerjee Secretary Purbachal Ananda Foundation

HEY GUYS & GALS OUT THERE, PLEASE READ CAREFULLY, YAHOO WON'T CHARGE FOR EVERY EMAIL SENT, IT'S GONNA BE PREFERENTIAL. YOU ARE AT YOUR OWN WILL TO PAY FOR THE PREMIUM SERVICES FROM YAHOO. - YAHOO EMPLOYEE IT'S NOT GOING T

My son in bagdad and its the only way I can find out he ok. I have had AOL for along time I would quite AOL. If im charged for each Email.

i will remove spam myself than paying them n wat about speedy i dnt want more speed

So spammers who pay can get promoted to the head of the queue and friends can have their emails dumped in the junk folder... erm... does anyone see a flaw in their thinking?

HAVING TO PAY THROUGH THE NOSE FOR A PAT OR SOOTH TO LOVED ONES IN AGONY IS SATANIC. HOPE THESE RICH GUYS WHO HAVE WEALTH TO PROVIDE BLESSING AT WILL WILL HAVE A CHANGE OF MIND. MAY GOD BLESS ALL POOR MEN AND THOSE WHO HELP THE POOR COMMUICATE

********bypass spam filters and other barriers ****** Pay Yahoo & AOL to send SPAMs

INTERNET LITERATURE IS NOW GROWING MUCH FASTER THAN ENGLISH, GREEK, LATIN, FRENCH, CHINESE, JAPANESE, AMERICAN, INDIAN OR ANY OTHER LITERATURE COVERING EVERYTHING AROUND OUR SN AND ALL OTHER SUNS IN THE UNIVERSE SPREADING LIGHT OF WISDOM TO EACH AND EVERY MOLECULE OF HUMAN LIFE. THIS IS GOING TO DIE A FAST DEATH WHEN INTERNET ACCESS WHICH IS GOD'S BLESSING BECOMES A TRADING COMMODITY.

Is price per adderessee or per message? If addressee, spammers will NOT pay for this. one million spams would costs $250,000. They could not afford it.

Anyone heard of free enterprise? May the best idea win. I think businesses will like this idea. I use the paid service of hotmail, and boy, it's good. I use free gmail and hotmail also, but for official work, hotmail's paid service is just great.

this has been a benifit for such a long time, i will be dissapointed and woon't be able to keep in touch with my son who is in college. i will be very sad.

Every one believes "We are most wanted ond Only We Can ". Surely Yahoo and AOL Can .........See u after Death dears...

How many people are going to be fooled by this scam. AOL and Yahoo are charging a fee to push spam down my throat. FOR A PRICE. Where is the honesty.

Like they say it's 'Business as usual', it's only a matter of time before one starts paying for the services they use. There is no such thing as 'FREE' :( Who knows overnight courier might be cheaper than email someday - so go back to courier !!!

This is just another reason to switch to GMail.

Switch to GMail....

If the emails of spammers who send thousands if emails at one time are sent straight to the spam box, I am in favour.

Good lord, this is just another attempt to squeeze penny's outta peoples wallets while pretending its for the good of all.. God I hate greedy buisness's

I think that this is a fair and just service charge since it requires application of time and technology.

As much as I hate SPAM .. I think this is hogwash and just another way to make money. What if I want to recieve e-mail form companeis I gave out my address to. Why should they have to pay ? Why not start implementing some kind of architecture for Caller ID Infrastructure and require that the companies have a "Caller ID" enabled email so they can be verified (As has been proposed by Microsoft and others in order to reduce spam).

This would reduce spam somewhat but not all, because companies whose send out million email a day would have to pay for it and they won't want to do that for revenues sake. End user benefit because they get their email fast and it isn't much send they don't get that much email per month.
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This is an indirect way of sharing our data to spammers

how ridiculous is this,not only we have to pay that is loss nd also spammers can pay nd directly land to our inbox!!

bad Idea, too easy for spammers and business to flood inboxes with ads and unwanted e-mails just because they bought a electronic stamp with no guarntee that the e-mailer isn't a fake address. AOL and Yahoo have just opened the flood gates for spammers weakening the internet rather then tightening the net against spammers, this is the one time I hope the government steps in and shuts this idea down. Only choice now is to place AOL and Yahoo domains in my rejected list. Just to protect my inbox from spammer floods and business flloods for e-mails i didn't request. Just making the time consuming spam filtering even harder.

I don't like the sound of this. Mail going past my Spam filters? Why have them if a company can pay AOL/Yahoo to bypass them? Looks like another way for them to make money at subscriber inconvenience to me.

Just another way to extort money from the public.... If they really were serious about the spam problem, they would put in place a system similar to Caller ID. But this is not a priority because it won't make them more money immediately like this stupid pay-per-email scheme!!! AOL is already one of the biggest ripoffs going and this just makes it worse!!!

You are all a bunch od dumb *****. They are not charging for you to have an email account. They are charging companies that want to send you spam for not being included in filters. Read carefully before you cheap ******** start whining about having to pay.
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I don't think that is fair, because I have had my email address for years, and that will be a problem with me, I wouldn't have a way of paying, there should be some solution for users thats been faithful, I use this to keep in touch with my family back in the US, I am from the Pacific islands, I got this email address before I could even us a computer, I was just a new user

Perhaps now all employees at Yahoo & AOL should be required to ware bandannas over there face's as they rob the internet consumer. This greedy ides SUCKS!!!

I do not think this is in the best interests of email users, as it seems they are providing a legitimate way for "spammers" to bypass the filter system. If someone wants to receive email from a company, they can currently unblock that sender themselves.

Great idea to sort our emails, however, having unpaid messages of users delivered to spam folder is unacceptable. I think this idea will generate in the short term some cash for both companies, but in the long run will turn users find email services else where: Gmail of Google.

Don't we pay for free email via or monthly ISP charges? Must mean the rates are going down...LMAO

Listen guys. This is a trick they are doing. Once they get enough "fools" to start paying for their "special email scheme", then they will start charging everyone for basic email and then guess what - we are all going to be the fools. Don't let this happen, people should put their foot down and fight for their rights. We pay for internet service and FREE EMAIL is included with it!