Original article found here

Ok.. lets see how many other people find this rediculous. First, selling out to China, now SELLING to spammers!

Yahoo and AOL plan to introduce a service that would charge senders a fee to route their e-mail directly to a user's mailbox without first passing through junk mail filters
Who would use such a service? Marketers/Advertisers/spammers maybe?

The fees, which would range from 1/4 cent to 1 cent per e-mail....
As someone else put it, thats cheaper than sending junk via snail mail!

e-mail senders will be guaranteed their messages won't be filtered and will bear a seal alerting recipients they're legitimate.
Legitimate.......... spam??
Not to mention... what happens when these spammers include malicious scripts,html, or other payloads (spyware/malware)?

Alun Jones (MS Security guru) writes:

Let me get this straight... if I'm one of your customers, you're going to sell access to my inbox, to anyone who has my address, allowing them to bypass the spam filters that would normally have kept them out of it, and this is to "weed out ... spam"?
HAHA!! aye aye aye... well... never did like AOL in the first place, but it looks like its Hasta Luego to my Yahoo account.

Oh... but it gets better

AOL and Yahoo would get a cut of the fees charged by Goodmail
Umm... would this fall under the "shooting ones self in the foot" category?
Hey AOL and YAHOO, you are already second and well... fifth or sixth place to google...
is that not far enough behind?