Greetings. Do you run an Internet mailing list? If so, you'd better have plenty of spare change handy!

AOL, Yahoo, Earthlink, MS, et al., are proposing a limit of 500 e-mail messages sent per day as an "anti-spam" measure. Of course, this won't stop spammers, but it would utterly obliterate all but the smallest legitimate mailing lists -- unless, one assumes, you pony up extra money for additional e-mail allocations. Spam could turn out to be the holy grail of excuses for ISPs looking for a way to move into the lucrative world of usage-sensitive pricing.

You may wish to immediately let your ISP know how you feel about such proposals!

Hold on to your wallets.

--Lauren--