AOL Won't Budge on Email Tax 277
deman1985 writes "InformationWeek reports that AOL has no intentions to budge on its use of certified email. The company today released a statement apparently in response to the vast amounts of criticism over the past week from consumers and various organizations. From the article: 'We believe more choices, and more alternatives, for safety and e-mail authentication is a good thing for the Internet, not bad,' said an AOL spokesman. 'Everything that AOL has in place today free for e-mail senders remains -- and will only improve.' The programs critics aren't so optimistic, but that doesn't seem to be hampering the company's plans. In a quote that could only be labeled short and sweet, AOL announced, 'Implementation of this timely and necessary safety and security measure for our members takes place in the next 30 days. Mark it on your calendars.'"
Swaths (Score:5, Funny)
That's a pretty large swath of my calender... someone got another highlighter? Mine wore out around March 14th.
Typical AOL Product Manager Reaction (Score:2, Funny)
Cha-ching. (Score:4, Funny)
Manager-speak (Score:3, Funny)
Wow. That a classic example of manager-spreak. Lord, help them, they're being managed. You can bet the farm on that.
Short and /sweet/? (Score:5, Funny)
"GO FUCK YOURSELF AOL" is also short and to the point, but far from sweet.
Have your cake and eat it too (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's a Company, folks (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Whatever (Score:3, Funny)
Re:might seem a little aloof (Score:1, Funny)
I don't know about you, but I definitely wouldn't want to play if the frisbee has a cutting edge.
Re:might seem a little aloof (Score:3, Funny)
The other day I was cleaning out junk and came across an old AOL disk I had kept. I should mention I am into retro-computers, and, THIS AOL coaster was a 5.25 floppy in ProDOS format. It is for AOL on the Apple II.
I was considering slapping my Micromodem ][ back in the
I would probably generate them about as fast as common sense takes to get to AOL Corporate HQ....