> I could totally see them one day saying, "we're not going to accept email from you unless we've emailed you first or you've contacted us to ask for permissio

> I could totally see them one day saying, "we're not going to accept email from you unless we've emailed you first or you've contacted us to ask for permission." There would be outrage, but I also wonder how many people would actually stop using gmail if they did this. Yahoo! is already doing something like this http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/bulkv2.html http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/bulkv2.html