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RE: [PLUG] [OT] Postage on EMail?
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Title: RE: [PLUG] [OT] Postage on EMail?
ok, now the BIG question.
Is this money considered taxable income? Who sends out
the 1099's? although right now, paypal isn't taxed unless
you claim it, but if something of the sort becomes a
standard, and people start profiting, taxation won't be
far behind.
George
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alex Birch [mailto:kes@lifesabirch.org]
>Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 10:13 AM
>To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>Subject: Re: [PLUG] [OT] Postage on EMail?
>
>
>George Gallen wrote:
>
>> So are there any exemptions from the fee? Say a grade school?
>> or if sending to a .gov address, impovished countries trying
>> to send real mail. Since they will not have an estamp, you now
>> have created lots of emails back and forth to accept, thus
>> tripling the # of emails.
>>
>Why would you need an exemption if no one ever labels your email as
>spam? You wouldn't be charged unless the people say it's spam. I'm
>grateful for Jeff's explanation. It eclipsed mine!
>
>> Should Maillists have lower fees?
>>
>You set the price limit.. you could set it to zero and maintain the
>current status of spam. Or 1 cent to get read of most of the spammers
>with their spoofed email addresses.
>
>> I see so many problems, and too much $ changing hands. Imagine
>> the underworld wants to launder money, all they will need to
>> do is send out a crap load of emails to people, spreading the
>> money trail over thousands of accounts.
>>
>How would this differ from EBay, Half, Lulu or any of the millions of
>online stores? It'll still leave an electronic trail which the NSA
>should have no problem following.
>
>Cheers,
>Alex
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