On Jan 11, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Owain Sutton wrote:
Who charges the tax? Email isn't based on agreements between national organisations in the way the postal system is. Either you create a separate national email system, or you find a way of implementing such a tax everywhere from the Cayman Islands to mafia-ridden ex-Soviet states.
Yes, that's the problem. I'm just saying that if we can figure out a way to implement it effectively, that would be a good thing.
Even if we come up with a working tax applied only on ISPs registered in participating nations, isn't that an improvement? It means that (1) the tax-evading spammers are obliged to go to an extra effort to be registered offshore, and (2) spam-filtering systems can then get to work on offering an option to reject all emails from ISPs in the Cayman Islands etc.
mdl
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