>I have heard that AT&T and Verizon are already lobbying congress to do the >same thing. If this is important to you, please sign the petition and/or >contact your congresspeople and senators, and forward this to all you >know! thanks. > >----- Original Message ----- >Subject: Stop AOL's email scheme > >Hi, > >I just signed an important online petition because the very existence of >online organizing and the free Internet as we know it are under attack by >America Online, and we need to fight back quickly. > >The petition's at: > ><http://civic.moveon.org/AOLpetition/>http://civic.moveon.org/AOLpetition/ > >AOL just announced what amounts to an "email tax." AOL would sell access >to your inbox to giant corporations -- allowing them to bypass spam >filters and get messages directly into your inbox with a special >high-priority designation. AOL says charging a fee will help deter spam, >but it will actually help companies spam you more efficiently -- and it'll >lock out issue groups, charities, and other non-profits that can't afford >to pay the price. > >The big loser would be customers -- whose email from non-paying senders >would increasingly be marked as spam and be undelivered. AOL pretends that >nothing would change for senders who don't pay, saying their emails will >still be "accepted." But, this is an empty promise since "accepting" >non-paid emails means many will be thrown into the black hole of a spam >filter or "stripped of images and Web links" to the point of being >unreadable, as reported in the New York Times. > >Can you sign this emergency petition to America Online? > >http://civic.moveon.org/AOLpetition/ > >Thanks! > >
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