There's a simply staggering amount of sturm und drang about this in the email community, most of it due to a combination of the initial press release openly contradicting AOL's policies, both historical and going forward, and further compounded by the press release announcing this only being covered - with a heapin' helpin' of spin - by two publications that are principally shills for the direct marketing industry. One of those publications has since published a second article, claiming AOL's 'reversal' of their original statments. This is either craptastic reporting, or else those original press releases were worded incredibly poorly, possibly both. So, no, nobody outside of AOL really has much of a clear picture what the fuck's going on, but the people who do know are good people who are going to do the right thing.
So, yeah, you're probably right, in that this is probably a Good Thing(tm).
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Date: 2006-02-08 12:28 am (UTC)So, yeah, you're probably right, in that this is probably a Good Thing(tm).