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Wow, how time flies. It's been more than a year since DearAOL.com fell off the face of the internet. Remember what that was? It was an astroturf site (i.e. a fake grass roots community movement) trying to strike fear in the hearts of us mere mortals about how the end of email was nigh. Goodmail would rule the land , they said. You wouldn't be able to deliver email to AOL without p…
Remember the famous internet rumor that made the rounds in 2006: “ AOL is trying to tax your email, write in now! ” Was it a rumor? Let’s take a look how things have shaped up, since that hit the internet. One year ago, Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation “ blo…