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AOL/Yahoo Email tax

Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:45 pm

Apparently Yahoo and AOL might be enforcing a tax on emails to stop spam...

Quite stupid if you ask me

Some articles here:
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/news/aol-and-yahoo-to-tax-email.asp
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/software/aolyahoo-email-tax-to-stop-spam-why-it-wont-work-152917.php

And here I think is a site that clears up some possible misunderstanding
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/emailtax.asp
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Postby Nate » Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:55 pm

EDIT: Wow, Ryan, I posted a lot of that snopes article you linked to. XD;; I'll take it all out though, seeing as how you've got it covered.
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Postby Mr. Rogers » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:54 am

good think i don't use aol and yahoo is just my junk address XD
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Postby Mithrandir » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:00 am

>.<

Snopes!
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Postby Locke » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:54 am

Why did I fall for their extra gig of space? T_T
I delete my emails anyways.
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