Bulk Email Marketing - Goodmail Denies Fee-Mail Monopoly Game

Monday, February 20 2006 at 13:55

We may never know what happened before AOL ran to the microphone to announce their Enhanced Whitelist's resuscitation. But both Goodmail and AOL deny there was any intent to corner the bulk email market, leaving the world outside AOL conference rooms to wonder.

Was all this a practical joke? A failed conspiracy? Propaganda? Goodmail chief Richard Gingras says the whole thing was a big misunderstanding.

"No one ever said anything about the Whitelist going away. The statement said the Enhanced Whitelist was going away. It didn't say Goodmail was the only option," Gingras told WebProNews.

Unlike AOL, at least he seems to acknowledge there was some sort of goofed communication. Gingras went on to say, declining to name names, that competitors and some press were intentionally misrepresenting the situation.

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