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/
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!

Do not trust A.O.L. @ all ... they are the same company that own a long distance phone company called "The Phone Company" One of the many scams they do is give free minutes of dial up internet to people. as long as they stay with A.O.L. they do not see any problems. The problems start when one cancels service with A.O.L. That is when they see what the real A.O.l. is really about. Ther is an agreement that by getting their free internet dial up try out, they will connent you to the Phone company, people thing thay means to the local dial tone provider, but really it means that they will change your long distance company from who ever you had before to their "The Phone Company" . This is not slamming the customer, because it is the legal name of their long distance carrier, but it shows the true evil of the company. Then once you cance their service,One must reclean their hard drive because A.O.L. likes to put their own programs all through your computer that now even simple programs that worked before now do not, unless you reorder A.O.L. service. and then if you try adding another dial up provider, they seem to have a program that goes in your computer that takes out the program of the dial up telephone numbers of the carrier you want and puts in their long distance dial up telephone numbers to them for you to resign up for free internet. (But little do you know... your long distance was changed to their long distance company unless you had a pic freeze put on your account by your local company before hand... you get billed a very high rate per minute of long distance... sure the internet dial up may be free, but the long distance isn't) ..... A.O.L. is one company I pray goes out of business...