AOL's Email Tax

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181500372

The way I understand this, anyone who wants guaranteed delivery to an AOL address is going to have to pay, not "just" the mass-mailers as originally thought.

Not surprised. They are going to have to come up with something to keep the
revenue stream going. AOL has become somewhat of a joke in recent years.
Anyone with a lick of sense knows there are far better options out there.

AOL ... blah! The only reason they are still around is because AOL used their
over-inflated value to buy out Time Warner at the height of the tech boom for
over $160 billion.
A lot of TW shareholders are still angry about that since the value of AOL would
have fallen through the floor if they waited another year.