Yahoo has recently started demanding registration of senders from corporate accounts. They claim the intent is to fight spam. Registration is actually a good idea, but Yahoo has chosen a heavy handed and clumbsy route where they will dump corporate senders email into the bulk folder, even when the corporation is not listed on any spam senders sites and provide no information about why. This amounts to coercion.

In addition, what I read about the sender’s fee was that it was to fight spam. The truth is that it has nothing to do with spam and is simply a ruse to rake in millions of $$ for Yahoo’s “free for life” email accounts. Spam senders would not be effected in the slightest as traditionally, spam senders will use a bogus “from” account and are thereby immune from sender's fees.

AOL has stated they may or will follow Yahoo’s lead.

The idea of registration is a good one and will help to fight spam. But Yahoo’s approach is back handed at best.

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...Tracy

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