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Here is the situation:

1. Organization is a 501c3.

2. Organization has a religious "internship" in which participants pay $700/month for 12 months, for "tuition", room/board.

3. Participants "volunteer" about 30 hours a week to the organization by doing the administrative functions of the the organization.

4. The "tuition" can be paid for by churches, the participant, or other individuals who choose to.

5. Organization claims that all the "tuition" costs are considered donations and therefore if the participant leaves the organization before the 12 months is ended, no part of the "tuition" is refunded.

Question--

1) Is the "tuition" tax deductible?

2) If it is tax deductible, who for? Individual who "donates" or participant of the "internship"?

3) Where does the "contributions from which you benefit" come into play or apply in this situation?

4) Are there any illegal practices, based on the information provided, on the part of the organization?

Any help that you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

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I recently upgraded to Outlook2007. The settings are, per bellsouth.net, as follows--

Incoming Server- mail.bellsouth.net

Outgoing Server- mail.bellsouth.net

I can receive email, however, I cannot send email from this account.

So, I know this is an odd problem to have as some would count it as a blessing.

For the past 3 months I have not received ANY spam in my Spam box for Yahoo Mail. I am using the New Yahoo Mail and have been for about a year.

I went from getting 100-200 spam emails a day to NONE. While I enjoy not having to empty the spam box and ensure that nothing good got sent there, I wonder what else I am not getting or what else is not being delivered to my email account.

I changed to Classic Yahoo for about a week to see if there was a change-- None.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.