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From: dino (dino@gmail.com)
Date: 09/06/2007

One famous controversy over spam filtering is the battle
between 
AOL/Goodmail vs. the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In this
case 
both sides are wrong with EFF being a little more wrong than
AOL. 
The Goodmail/AOL relationship is based on the idea that
Goodmaill 
certifies email as good and AOL accepts it as good email. 
But there's $$$ involved and because of this EFF has accused
AOL as 
trying to turn email into a paid service. Unfortunately EFF
can't 
get beyond listening to themselves echo their own opinion
to
understand that the concepts behind AOL/Goodmail are at
least 
partially sound. The idea is to get the good email through.
http://vinniki.com/free/index.html 
This system eliminates the need for AOL/Goodmail's system 
in that it automatically tracks good email from all servers

and makes their karma available to the world. So rather than

having to pay to get a reputation as a trusted server all
you 
have to do is consistently send good email and when the
world sees 
that then you get whitelisted. Problem solved.