One cent per email

Email companies AOL and Yahoo will be offering a new service to companies, businesses, and organisations that will have their emails being sent to and from them charged one cent per email. The two email companies hope this will discourage spam groups from sending email as it would cost them money to send their emails. Many companies have spent billions on getting rid of spam email in the last year and it is hoped this new service will cut costs.

When someone sends an email to one of these companies those who have paid the one cent fee will have a authentication stamp on it to tell the company that its not from a spammer. The service will be introduced in the next few months and organisations like the American Red Cross have already signed up.