Goodmail Certified Email messages are wending their way to AOL subscribers. The first such messages began last week, AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham tells ClickZ. Yes, it's probably happening right now.
Goodmail, the e-mail accreditation provider generating controversy through its partnership with AOL, has signed up 15 new e-mail service providers to implement its CertifiedEmail service, including BlueStreak, Acxiom Digital, e-Dialog, Epsilon...
While the topic was almost certainly prompted by the AOL/Goodmail controversy, the debate was more theoretical, about whether a system in which the sender pays makes sense for e-mail. Considering the lengths to which anti-AOL/Goodmail activists...
Since February, the coalition has been railing against AOL's proposed e-mail certification program AOL is implementing with partner Goodmail, saying that the plan to charge for enhanced deliverability services threatens to undermine free e-mail as...
So, yesterday, while writing up a piece about a conference call with California State Senator Dean Florez regarding Monday's hearing on AOL's Goodmail's CertifiedE-mail service, an e-mail from Adam Green landed in my inbox.
Tech investor Esther Dyson weighs in on the AOL/Goodmail debate with an editorial in the New York Times (registration req.today. Venerable blogger Dave Winer calls the editorial "spot on" and gets a bunch of comments (including some from Goodmail).
It's because of the ISP's recent Enhanced Whitelist agreement with Goodmail to institute what MoveOn calls an "email tax. MoveOn.org is accusing AOL of threatening "the very existence of online civic participation and the free Internet as we know it.
The implementation of Goodmail's CertifiedEmail announced last week is a paid service that provides additional benefits to senders, like automatic display of images and links, adding a "trust symbol" to the message in the user's inbox, bypassing...
