Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:18:06 +1300, Nick FitzGerald said:

> Last week (or a little further back) there was moderate indignation at 
> the suggestion that SBC (??) or some other large carrier was looking to 
> charge the operators of popular target sites (like Google, MSN, Yahoo!) 
> to guarantee what was essentially "preferential treatment" for traffic 
> destined for those target domains from the carrier's customers.
>
> There doesn't seem to be the same level of (if any) indignation over 
> this suggestion.

It's not symmetric.

If a user gets pissed off because he can't get mail at AOL from sites that
haven't paid their protection money, it's pretty easy to move to another
e-mail provider.

If a user gets pissed off because his streaming video is coming from a
site that hasn't paid SBC their protection money, there's usually not a
lot of other places to buy bandwidth to the home....

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