Author: Mowe Z. SlowleyMowe Z. Slowley Date: May 1, 2007 09:58
coyote wrote:
> Paul E. Schoen wrote:
>> "coyote" wrote in message
>> news:d_adnXl7AqZgQa7bnZ2dnUVZ_t2tnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>> Paul E. Schoen wrote:
>>>
>>>> I proposed a penny per email (or post) "tax", which would have cost
>>>> the perp in this case only $60. Sometimes you have to give up a
>>>> portion of your freedom when someone else abuses that freedom for
>>>> cowardly and immature actions such as this.
>>> It wont work. People have been proposing this solution for years, and
>>> it wouldnt have worked when it was first suggested and it most
>>> certainly will not work now.
>>>
>>> Back in 2004 John Levine wrote this document explaining why not:
>>> http://www.taugh.com/epostage.pdf
>>>
>>> If you need to look him up: http://www.johnlevine.com/
>>>
>>> All the issues he raises are still valid, and the advent of large ...
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