I don' t know is any of this is true or not...it's enough to make you stop
and wonder at any rate. If anyone knows if the following is a hoax or not,
please tell me.
cheers
thom kuby
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> We Knew this was coming!! Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt. to
>charge a 5 cent charge on every delivered email. Please read the
>following carefully if you intend to stay online and continue using
>E-mail: The last few months have revealed an alarming trend in the
>Government of the United States attempting to quietly push through
>legislation that will affect your use of the Internet. Under proposed
>legislation the US Postal Service will be attempting to bill E-mail
>users out of alternate postage fees." Bill 602P will permit the Federal
>Govt. to charge a 5 cent surcharge on every E-mail delivered, by billing
>Internet Service Providers at source. The consumer would then be billed
>in turn by the ISP.
> Washington DC lawyer Richard Stepp is working without pay to prevent
>this legislation from becoming law. The US Postal Service is claiming
>that lost revenue due to the proliferation of email is costing nearly
>$230,000,000 in revenue per year You may have seen their recent ad
>campaign "There is nothing like a letter." Since the average received
>about 10 pieces of emailper day in 1998, the cost to the typical
>individual would be an additional 50 cents per day, or over $180 dollars
>
> per year, above and beyond their regular Internet costs. Note that
>this would be money paid directly to the US Postal Service for a service
>they do not even provide.
> The whole point of the Internet is democracy and non-interference. If
>the federal government is permitted to tamper with end. You are already
>paying an exorbitant price for snail mail because of bureaucratic
>efficiency.
> It currently takes up to 6 days for a letter to be delivered from New
>York to Buffalo. If the US Postal Service is allowed to tinker with
>email, it will mark the end of the "free" Internet in the United
>States. One Congressman, Tony Schnell, has even suggested a "twenty to
>forty dollar per month surcharge on all
>Internet service" above and beyond the government's proposed email
>charges.
>Note that most of the major newspapers have ignored the story, the only
>exception being the Washingtonian which called the idea of email
>surcharge "a useful concept who's time has come" (March 6th 1999
>Editorial). Don't sit by and watch your freedoms erode away.
> Send this e-mail to EVERYONE on your list, and
> tell all your friends and relatives to write to their congressman and
> say "No!" to Bill 602P. It will only take a few moments of your time,
> and could very well be instrumental in killing a bill we don't want!
>
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