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Home 14 Feb 2006 How Bad is Goodmail? Email Goodmail Systems made a big splash last week when AOL and Yahoo announced that they will be giving preferential treatment to mail that uses Goodmail's CertifiedEmail service, claiming (implausibly) that this has something to do with stopping spam.. Since Goodmail charges senders for each message, some people see this as the end of e-mail as we know it. I have my concerns about Goodmail, but a lot of the concerns are either overblown or based on bad reporting. See more ... posted at: 14:28 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/goodmail.trackback

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