Deon wrote:
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 11:17 PM
Subject: [Avian2005] AOL Wants to Charge for Not-Profit
Email
AOL to block nonprofit email Please forward...This is serious
Now is the time for AOL users to thank their ISP for the advance notice
so
that they can begin looking for a provider that doesn't censor their
mail.
Please note, to get on those lists, you have to opt in. That is, you are
requesting information from them. AOL is already charging you for the
internet access, now they want to charge people to send you mail.
If AOL was to charge all the Spammers that they support, on the other
hand,
even GW couldn't spend all the money AOL would rake in.
Scott
Even if you don't have AOL, please tell them how unfair this is...This
could
be the beginning of them all doing this
Civic and political organizing online is under attack by America
Online. We
need to fight back quickly.
MoveOn has prepared an online petition to fight this move. It's at:
http://civic.moveon.org/AOLemail/
The issue: Online
political groups, issue groups, charities, and other
non-profits who have large memberships will essentially be priced out
of the
Internet.
How? AOL just announced plans to charge groups with large membership
lists
every time they send an email, charging what the New York Times calls
the
"electronic equivalent of a postage stamp" for EACH RECIPIENT'S ADDRESS
every time an email is sent.
The only way for groups to be sure members receive their emails would
be to
pay. If they don't pay, your emails could go into a black hole - or be
"stripped of images and Web links." If AOL succeeds, other companies
will
follow - so we need to fight back today.
Silence is assent. Time is short. The radical corporate right is on the
march. Whether or not you're an AOL user, please sign the petition NOW.
Thanks.
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