The last time I checked, the postal service has a very similar system to provide different options.

America Online is pleased to have reached an agreement with the state of New York on certain customer-care practices, and we believe this agreement will increase quality assurance.

The industry needs to develop new security tools, such as secure e-mail.

For our members this is an easy and welcome way to identify mail they want to get more quickly and easily into their in-box.

If you are a large bulk sender of e-mail that opted in and is following our unsolicited bulk e-mail policy, those e-mails will be delivered.

The settlement announced today consolidates and resolves a series of cases that have been pending for several years. AOL denies the allegations contained in the original lawsuit, and we've defended the cases accordingly.

It's a very modest revenue amount that we will use to simply cover the cost of ongoing spam-fighting.

It's good for the consumer. It's good for the e-mail companies.

This is someone we've been pursuing for three years. It's one of the largest judgments we've received.

This is really a win, win, win for everyone involved.