Yahoo and AOL's plans to charge trusted marketers a fee in order to allow their e-mail messages to bypass spam filters has been slammed by security experts and snubbed by Australia's largest online media company, ninemsn.
In an attempt to block spammers, Yahoo has put into action a controversial technique to help its e-mail service distinguish between human beings and junk-mail-sending software robots.
Google's free e-mail service, Gmail, has begun using antispam technology supported heavily by archrival Yahoo.
Two-faced: The free email services that act anti-spam are secretly hand-in-hand with the marketers - offering to block junk email while they help advertisers push promotions into customers' in-boxes.
Some Yahoo members have reacted angrily to changes in the Web portal's e-mail marketing practices, comparing the company's revised policy to an open invitation to spam.
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