AOL recently announced what amounts to an "email tax." Under this pay-to-send system, large emailers willing to pay an "email tax" can BYPASS SPAM FILTERS and get guaranteed, high-priority access to people's inboxes. Under this corrupt system, you must pay an e-mail tax to avoid spam! IF THEY SUCCEED, OTHERS WILL FOLLOW. LET'S SEND THEM A MESSAGE. SIGN THE PETITION.

Source: http://www.civic.moveon.org/AOLpetition/

I really dont care about this, I have an email at my domain, noone will make me pay for sending emails...and if they do, I'm sure by then, there will be better ways to send messages to each other. for example, i am using msn messenger 8 beta, and it allows offline messaging, so it's like email .