Danny O'Brien, who is debating Esther Dyson tonight in San Francisco on the question of whether you should pay to send email, says,
Google says its user-filters work fine, and it won't take money from senders to skip them, as AOL is planning in its Goodmail deal: "Gmail does not accept payment to bypass its filters, nor are there plans to charge senders to reach Gmail users"
Link to WebPro News article.