A new digital divide is set to separate the haves from the have-nots, with two internet giants AOL and Yahoo endorsing a system that gives preferential treatment to emails sent by paying subscribers. AOL and Yahoo are two of the world’s largest provider of email accounts plan to start charging an optional fee to send email directly into user inboxes without going through junk mail filters. Users will have to pay from a quarter of a cent to 1 cent per email to ensure their messages are marked as certified and grab the attention of the receiver. This will help them identify legitimate mail and cut down on junk email, identity-theft scams and other problems.

Yahoo and AOL stand to earn millions of dollars a day if this system is widely adopted. The companies will accept mails from unpaid users too but the paid messages will be given priority.
Via – Economictimes