Yahoo and AOL

[Clodfobble]

I know there was a discussion a couple of days ago about Yahoo and AOL's plan to start charging "companies" who send out large amounts of email a "nominal" fee for "priority" delivery... but I can't find it.

I'm not certain this is related, but it seemed damn fishy to me.

I have a yahoo email address (three, actually, for different purposes, but that's beside the point.) My mother-in-law is fond of sending e-cards, a practice that I despise but she's my mother-in-law, what am I going to do, right? That's why she gets to use the spam email address.

So she recently tried to send out Valentine's Day cards to her usual spate of ungrateful recipients... and all of the yahoo email addresses came back as undeliverable. As I am also this woman's usual avenue for tech support, subsequent examination showed that all normal email traffic was getting to me and the other yahoo users, only her stupid e-cards were being blocked.

I don't know whether to be worried or thrilled.