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How does an online marketer define success ? There are many ways to describe

Will Microsoft Kill Email on the Net?

Written by John Lynch


Will Microsoft Kill Free Email onrepparttar Net?

Spam has been such a problem that email filters are now widespread onrepparttar 118747 Net. These filters are a necessary response torepparttar 118748 menace of spam. However, willrepparttar 118749 excuse of spam be used by companies such as Hotmail to charge for email?

Disturbing news that Hotmail (owned by Microsoft) is blocking perfectly legitimate emails because they have been caught by their anti-spam filters is increasing these fears.

Allan Gardyne of Associateprograms.com has been commenting recently aboutrepparttar 118750 difficulties SiteSell (owner ofrepparttar 118751 website building package SiteBuildIt) has had with Hotmail.

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When SiteSell complained to Hotmail they did not get a helpful response. Microsoft suggested that they userepparttar 118752 services of a company called Bonded Sender which would ensure that SiteSell's legitimate non-spam emails would reach their customers. It just happens that one ofrepparttar 118753 owners of Bonded Sender is a former employee of Microsoft!

Many other companies have had similar problems with Hotmail. Bill Gates is on record as wishing to charge for email as a method of preventing spam. Unfortunately, whenrepparttar 118754 big companies onrepparttar 118755 Net gang up like this, a sort of inevitability about charging for email creeps in. Nearly 60% of email is handled by Hotmail, AOL, and Yahoo combined. These three companies could haverepparttar 118756 power to force customers to pay for their email.

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