Yahoo与AOL拟推出收费邮件服务_科技Science

san francisco - two of the world's biggest e-mail account providers, yahoo inc. (nasdaq:yhoo - news) and america online, 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, representatives of both companies said sunday.

the fees, which would range from 1/4 cent to 1 cent per e-mail, are the latest attempts by the companies to weed out unsolicited ads, commonly called spam, and identity-theft scams. in exchange for paying, e-mail senders will be guaranteed their messages won't be filtered and will bear a seal alerting recipients they're legitimate.

aol and yahoo said the program, which is being offered through a company called goodmail systems, will target banks, online retailers and other groups that send large amounts of e-mail. in exchange for a payment and a pledge to contact only people who have agreed to receive their messages, the companies would be ensured their e-mails aren't diverted to spam folders or have images or web addresses filtered out.