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AOL: Let The Wookiee Win

The spectrum-spanning consortium calling on AOL to reconsider fee-based Goodmail delivery debuted DearAOL.com just in time to soak up fanboy reaction to the ISP behemoth's instant-classic jibe that it's just "some disparate groups of advocates ... reminiscent of the bar scene in the first 'Star Wars' movie."

Computer controversy meets Star Wars references.  Technorati will groan tonight under the heavy tread of banthas and probots. 

If you signed the version of this petition hosted by DemocracyInAction, your signature appears at Dear AOL.  If you haven't signed it, visit the new digs to do so.  MoveOn has a good backgrounder on the whole matter, which AOL and Goodmail have been at pains to paint as not immediately affecting any current nonprofit bulk mailers.  Good and well.  But it's difficult to deny that this arrangement incentivizes AOL in a way that might lead it in the future -- for structural, bottom-line reasons rather than any personal wickedness -- to pucker up free whitelists tight as a drum and put more and more organizations to the quandary of money you can't afford to pay, or e-mail you can't afford to have junk-filtered.

 

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04:00 PM Feb 28, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

goose@goldenegg.com

At the Sephora in downtown San Francisco, you'll need to look sharp and move fast upon ingress to avoid the sunny inquiries of a greeter -- not bereft of pulchritude -- concerned to know whether you have "yet" signed up for sephora.com.

Yes, Sephora wants your @hotmail address where you send all your business junk, or some made-up thing you think of on the spot, and they're willing to manufacture free samples by the thousands and pay an outgoing high school kid to hand them to you, and a (perhaps) more acne-bespotted one to enter them into a database at day's end.  A fine thing, for a firm dedicated to distilling revenue from the erogenous effervescence of musk ox mist, to lay down cash on the nail for these diaphanous threads by which we moderns hold one another at bay.

 

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01:00 PM Feb 28, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

goose@goldenegg.com

At the Sephora in downtown San Francisco, you'll need to look sharp and move fast upon ingress to avoid the sunny inquiries of a greeter -- not bereft of pulchritude -- concerned to know whether you have "yet" signed up for sephora.com.

Yes, Sephora wants your @hotmail address where you send all your business junk, or some made-up thing you think of on the spot, and they're willing to manufacture free samples by the thousands and pay an outgoing underclassperson to hand them to you, and a (perhaps) more acne-bespotted one to enter them into a database at day's end. A fine thing, for a firm dedicated to distilling revenue from the erogenous effervescence of musk ox mist, to lay down cash on the nail for these diaphanous threads by which we moderns hold one another at bay.

 

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01:00 PM Feb 28, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

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