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Spam Cooking Over at Yahoo!, AOL

Stock quotes in this article: YHOO , GOOG , MSFT , TWX , UNTD  

Spam is still a can of worms for Internet companies.

Yahoo! (YHOO Quote) and Time Warner's (TWX Quote) America Online now say they plan to charge senders for the bulk delivery of some emails. But critics of the plan abound.

Under the service Yahoo! and AOL envision, bulk email senders can choose to pay a fee ranging from one-quarter of a cent to 1 cent per message to have their email certified as legitimate. The stamp of approval will help users weed out unwanted messages and reduce network-taxing traffic, the companies say. ...

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