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   Review - IrfanView

   3.75 (Jul 16, 2002)

   Great program, much better than a lot of shareware progs, yet free! Nice interface, good features, very user-intuitive. A perfect 5!

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   Review - G-Lock EasyMail

   4.0 Beta 5 (Jul 11, 2002)

   Maybe if this program was adware, so then the spammers would have those incredibly annoying little pop-ups all the time... That would be poetic. I'm sure some people might have a legitimate use for this program, but I sure don't. If I need it, XP Pro already offers built-in SMTP service.

3. Comment - FCC Wants VoIP Users to Pay Tax, Too

   4.0 Beta 5 (Dec 16, 2005 - 12:02 AM)

   expert01, I'm fully aware of what Vonage provides, I'm an IT professional who has used them for over a year now.
   
   The point of what I was saying was the nature of this federal communications tax, which other phone companies want applied to Vonage, is incongruous. Vonage is a service provided on top of another service, namely some form of broadband internet.
   
   To clarify further, my remarks were that we already pay taxes on the infrastructure Vonage is utilizing, that being the DSL, cable modem, T1 line, whatever. This is not the same as paying for a standard telephone line, where you have actual copper line buried in the ground which only serves the purpose of giving you a dial tone. If Vonage were a line from a provider directly to my house, with no attendant services, I would agree that it should be taxed in order to provide that infrastructure everywhere else. However, the fact remains that we are already taxed for the infrastructure Vonage is using, every time we pay our broadband bill. Any broadband service has tax built into the monthly price.
   
   Furthermore, what you call "a couple cents" is actually a few dollars when you start adding things up. When I had my old POTS line, they said it was $6.50 a month. After taxes and "service fees", the price was over $13.00. So, if it's all the same to you, I would prefer the government not tax something that it really has no logical grounds for taxing, other than standard telephone companies complaining over an inability to match the features and price points of VoIP providers.

4. Comment - FCC Wants VoIP Users to Pay Tax, Too

   4.0 Beta 5 (Dec 15, 2005 - 7:42 PM)

   We already pay a tax for Vonage, it's called a bill for broadband internet. Since VoIP providers don't have any specific infrastructure that the government needs to support, I don't see why they should have to pay any additional taxes. If anything, the taxes should be part of a cable/dsl bill. Oh look, they already are!