{"id":1992,"date":"2006-02-22T16:27:01","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T00:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/what-is-spamworth"},"modified":"2015-10-29T20:19:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T03:19:21","slug":"what-is-spamworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/what-is-spamworth\/","title":{"rendered":"What is SPAM Worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2006\/02\/05\/business\/email.php\">New York Times<\/a> articles notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>America Online and Yahoo, two of the world\u2019s largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay from 1\/4 of a cent to a penny each to have them delivered<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>On AOL, for example, [paid messages] will go straight to users\u2019 main mailboxes, and will not have to pass the gantlet of spam filters that could divert them to a junk-mail folder or strip them of images and Web links.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I first heard of this move a while back, it sounded like something that would decrease SPAM. Make SPAMMERS pay and the benefit goes away. Now, it appears that there is a real incentive for paying, as the reward is avoiding SPAM filters! Sounds like a direct line to consumers is being offered at a quarter of a penny each. The folks at MoveOn.org are weary of this move, pleading:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AOL, don\u2019t auction off preferential access to people\u2019s inboxes to giant emailers, while leaving people\u2019s friends, families, and favorite causes wondering if their emails are being delivered at all. The Internet is a force for democracy and economic innovation only because it is open to all Internet users equally\u2014we must not let it become an unlevel playing field.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Agree with them? There\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/civic.moveon.org\/emailtax\/?id=6934-5191552-BLy7PZbJY5DrqD.Oby6djA&amp;t=1\">petition<\/a> going around.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image via\u00a0<a class=\"owner-name truncate\" title=\"Go to Christer's photostream\" href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/brandsvig\/\" data-track=\"attributionNameClick\" data-rapid_p=\"59\">Christer<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard of this move a while back, it sounded like something that would decrease SPAM. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/spam-mailbox.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}