This email has been circulating around the internet for several months
now. This issue was settled by the FCC in May 1997 with a decision not
to allow local phone companies to charge minute access fees. If you send
email to the email address at the FCC (isp@fcc.gov) you will get an
auto-response stating the same thing. This note is an urban legend like
the Neiman Marcus cookie recipe and the stolen kidney.
Best regards,
A.J. (Jim) Seippel
jim.seippel@siemenscom.com
>-----Original Message-----
>From: William Chapman [SMTP:bchapman@adelphia.net]
>Sent: Thursday, January 22, 1998 4:03 PM
>To: alan fisher
>Cc: amy; bruce; bruce berlin; Don Laws; Frank Clarici; gary speckman; george
>marinos; greg clarici; Jack Kinslow; James B Dalglish; jeff burns; jim
>spring; Joe Meccia; john van b; Spridgets
>Subject: FCC and Email
>
>
>
>READ READ READ...........I deleted the long list that accompanied this
>E-mail. Very Important for the Future of the internet!!!!!
>
> Subject: TELEPHONE INTERNET CHARGES
> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:51:31 +0000
> From: franke10@bellatlantic.net
> To: TDW@CYBER-QUEST.COM, Virginian <pwimsey@win.bright.net>,
>
>READ THIS! READ THIS! READ THIS! READ THIS!
>
>Our local telephone company has filed a proposal with the
>FCC to impose per minute charges for your internet service. They contend
>
>that your usage has or will hinder the operation of the telephone
>network. It is my belief that internet usage will diminish if users were
>
>required to pay additional per minute charges. The FCC has created an
>email box for your comments, responses must be received by February 13,
>1998. Send your commentsto isp@fcc.gov and tell them what you think.
>
>EVERY PHONE COMPANY is in on this one, and they are trying to sneak it
>in just under the wire for litiagation.
>
>Let EVERYONE YOU KNOW hear this one. Get the e-mail address to EVERYONE
>you can think of.
>
>isp@fcc.gov
>
>--
>Bill Chapman
>Bchapman@adelphia.net
>
>
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