Aunty Spam’s Internet Patrol

Wow, talk about reinventing the square wheel! Startup Affini, Inc., of Saratoga, California, has launched a new email system with an integrated “pay to send to our users” feature.

According to an article on Extreme Tech, advertisers will be required to pay approximately 15 cents each to send an email advertisement to Affini users. For their part, Affini users will have the choice to opt-in to receive such advertisements, for which they will get either a cut of the cash, or points (it isn’t really clear which, although the ExtremeTech article quotes Affini CEO William Chang as saying that it will start as points, but quickly be exchangable for cash within a few weeks - Chang is nothing if not optimistic). [...more]