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Verizon Deploys ‘Certified Email’ – Controversial system ‘to help protect its customers from spam’

In: broadbandreports.com|Site Feeds|VoIP

7 Jun 2007

As hinted at yesterday, Verizon has announced that they’ve implemented GoodMail’s “Certified Email” system, which charges marketers and mass mailers a fee to bypass an ISP’s spam filters. To become a “certified” mass mailer, companies pay around a quarter of a penny per message sent — with half of those fees going to the ISP.

The Verizon press release insists the service is a boon to consumers and a way to differentiate “legit” spam from less ethical pitches:”CertifiedEmail is part of an extensive suite of services that Verizon uses to help protect its customers from spam and other e-mail abuse,” said Peter Castleton, director of Verizon consumer broadband services. “The problem of phishing and fraud erodes trust in e-mail. A certification service, such as CertifiedEmail, enables us to help restore that trust and makes it easier for consumers to identify legitimate e-mail messages.”

“Goodmail has established itself as a leading delivery service provider for trusted-class e-mail,” Castleton added. An in
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