Interesting News from Yahoo! and AOL - They plan to introduce a service that will guarantee legitimate email gets delivered into inboxes on their platforms, for a fee. From a Wired News article:

Two of the world's biggest e-mail account providers, Yahoo and America Online, plan to introduce a service that would charge senders a fee to route their e-mail directly to a user's mailbox without first passing through junk mail filters, representatives of both companies said Sunday.

If you don't sign up for the service, your email will still be delivered, but might end up in a spam filter. The service will be managed by a third party company, GoodMail. I know this is blasephemous, but I've never had a problem with the idea that one might have to pay to send email (I'm happy to pay for stamps!). And, I assume that many nonprofits won't have to worry about getting certified - I'm thinking that the software vendors will get themselves certified.

But I wonder if this is the solution.