International campaign "making the Euro a Tobin Tax Currency"

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This is an international list to share information and building up an international campaign

Making the Euro a Tobin Tax Currency

The list is open to all campaigners in europe that accept the following statement:
  • We propose a currency transaction tax against speculation and for financial stability
  • The raised money will be used for the financing of development goals (access to basic social services)
  • The raised money will be managed by a special democratically controlled fund

Members:
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Language:
To determine the language of an international list is always difficult. The language you use in this list is your own choice, but keep in mind that probably most of the subscribers will speak/understand English, some Spanish, German or French and others Greek or Flemish, etc. We would suggest to use English as probably it is the language that is best understood and spoken by the subscribers of this list.
But if you feel your English is not good enough to express your meaning on some or all points, please do not hesitate and write in the language you wish. We will manage to understand ;o)

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  • to publish information or to carry out actions not respecting the Belgian law (that comprises racism, all forms of ethnic exclusion, and calling up for violence),
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  • to insult, defame, calumniate... (this is so obvoius, isn't it ?),
  • personal conflicts will not be tolerated.

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About the form of your sendings
For an accessibility of all with electronic communication and without discrimination:
  • HTML format is disabled. Send your mails in text format (HTML is for the Web, in a mail it has no function, it increases the weight of the mail and increases the risks of viruses).
    (In Outlook Express, which is for the viruses what honey is for the flies ;o), to make your messages in text format by default, it is enough to follow these rules: click TOOLS> OPTIONS> SEND> MAIL SENDING FORMAT> PLAIN TEXT and on the same page under SENDING unmark the option "reply to messages using the format in which they were sent").
  • Voluminous files, must be avoided and proscribed of the lists (200kb, max.). In ever you think is is necessary to send a voluminous file please add them directly on the list by using the shared web possibility available in SYMPA. If you do not know how to use this, contact the moderators and they will let you know.

About bulky/voluminous files
Email messages should currently be kept under a maximum of 200kb (what is already high). Here is why explained with an example of a message of 500kb:

In Europe, a modem V28Bis, allows a transfer to 28.800 bps (bits a second), this corresponds to 3,6 Kb/sec (28.800/8 = 3.600 bytes or bytes). By supposing that the slowing down through the telephone link is 25 % (in certain cases it can be much more), there remains a flow of 2,7 Kb/sec. This means thus for a mail of 500kb, 500/2.7 = 185 seconds = a little more than 3 minutes to download. And thus 15 minutes for 5 mails of 500k, 30 minutes for 10, etc.

If you send messages to the countries of the South (and do not forget that on this list, and so many others, also people from the South are subscribed) the slowing down through the telephone network can be there perhaps 50%, as well as that the telephone line will disconnect 2 times in 1/2 an hour (= the remote loading will have to be started again).

We can show you several testimonies from the South, where people feel excluded from the communication when the ones possessing high flow lines (ADSL, cable, etc.) do not pay attention to the low flows (modems, telephone lines of poor quality, etc). Ain't it necessary to think here of a "equitable" communication ?

Also, do not forget, how uncredible this might sound ;o) there are still people who do not possess their own computer and do have to read their mails in a public place like a library, the school, etc. and take a webmail style hotmail or other yahoo. These message boxes are often limited to 2 Mb, and thus, 4 message of 500k is enough for the message box to refuse all other messages.
Other do not read and empty their boxes every day and there happens the same: when it is filled, it refuses also all new message. These are then likely to miss by the important infos.

A good rule: Saving bytes!


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