March 1, 2006: The internet as we have all know it will soon no longer exist.Get ready to receive tons of spam....but not the things you really want! Two things are happening, and both are very serious. Please read on to find out more and what you can do about both of these problems: 1. AOL and Yahoo are starting to charge newsletter senders for the privilege of having their opt in e mails delivered with the links in them. NOTE: AOL includes aol.com, wmconnect.com, cs.com, and netscape.net! This is pure extortion! If we do not start to pay hundreds of dollars per month to a company called "Goodmail" (which then pays AOL and Yahoo), these companies will dump the newsletter into your spam box with all of the links stripped out of them.
This means that IF you even receive the Happy Day Cards Newsletter at all, it will be in your spam box and you will not be able to click on even one single link to an e mail card that you want to send!
You may be receiving other newsletters and the same thing will happen to them. Not one small private owner web site, non profit organization or church will be able to afford to pay these rates!
Who can afford to pay?
SPAMMERS!
The result will be that you will be receiving tons and tons of spam e mail but you will not be receiving anything that you want to receive except plain text messages with no links in them at all. Read the details here:
http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/AOL_Yahoo_wide_open_to_bulk_e-mail_for_a_fee.asp
If you are angry about this, as I am, please take time to contact AOL and Yahoo and tell them that you will be changing e mail services if they do not stop this plan immediately. The only thing they will pay attention to is a loss of income. They will be making hundreds of thousands of dollars from the huge companies and the spammers who will be paying them. But if they lose a very large part of their customers they will change.
You can make a difference! But you must act.
AOL does not have a contact form on their web site. You must telephone them at 1-800-762-1096. If you have an 800 number from AOL for customer service, call that number. Let them know you are a customer and that you are angry!
Yahoo! does have a contact form and it is here:
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_feedback
2. Many of the larger Internet Service Providers are planning to charge web site owners for the "privilege" of having their web sites seen.
What does that mean to you?
It means that if individual web site owners do not pay every single ISP, you will no longer be able to visit Happy Day Cards -- or any other web site that is owned by a person, company, organization or church that cannot afford the high fees, because YOUR ISP will have it blocked and you will receive only an error page.
Common Cause and other organizations have a campaign to ask Congress to pass legislation to forbid this. If these companies are allowed to get away with extorting money from web site ownersin order to have their sites viewed on the PUBLIC WORLD WIDE WEB, the only web sites that will ever been seen are the ones from large, rich companies who can afford these fees. This means that all privately owned web sitessuch as Happy Day Cards will in effect not be there anymore.
What can you do????
If you live in the USA you can use the following web site to send e mails to your Senators and Congressperson demanding that a law be passed making it illegal for Internet Service providers to make web sites pay them or be blocked out. Here is the link to the page that has the form on it:http://www.commoncause.org/ProtectNetNeutrality If our legislators get thousands of e mails they will do something about this.
You can make a difference!
Please send this message to everyone you know. Working together we can keep the internet open and available for all of us....not just for wealthy companies!
Thank you for helping to keep Happy Day Cards and every other privately owned web site on line for all to visit!
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