Fw: E-Mail Charges

["Cora" <bandc@teknett.com>]

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From: Carolyn Cooper <teddy@pahrump.net>
To: Cora Green <bandc@teknett.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 7:52 AM
Subject: Fw: E-Mail Charges


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> Date: Saturday, September 16, 2000 10:47 AM
> Subject: Re: E-Mail Charges
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> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Aletha A. Weyburn <weyburna@bellsouth.net>
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> >Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 1:39 PM
> >Subject: E-Mail Charges
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> >
> >> Subject: Fwd: Federal Bill 602P 5-cents per E-mail Sent
> >>
> >>
> >> VOTE NO ON Bill 602P!!!! I guess the warnings were true.  Federal Bill
> >> 602P
> >> 5-cents per E-mail Sent.  It figures!  No more free E-mail!  We knew
> >> this was coming!
> >>     Bill 602P will permit the Federal Government to charge a 5-cent
> >> charge on every delivered E-mail.  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 our use of the
> >> Internet.  Under proposed legislation, the US Postal Service will be
> >> attempting to bill E-mail users out of "alternative postage fees."
Bill
> >> 602P will permit the Federal Government 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
> >> lost revenue, due to the proliferation of E-mail, is costing nearly
> >> $230,000,000 in revenue per year.  You may have noticed their recent ad
> >> campaign:
> >> "There is nothing like a letter."  Since the average person received
> >> about 10 pieces of E-mail per day in 1998, the cost of the typical
> >> individual would be an additional 50 cents a day -- or over $180 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 noninterference.  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 coast to coast.  If the US
> >> Postal Service is allowed to tinker with E-mail, it will mark the end
of
> >> the "free" Internet in the United States.
> >>     Our congressional representative, Tony Schnell (R) has even
> >> suggested a "$20-$40 per month surcharge on all Internet service" above
> >> and beyond the governments proposed E-mail charges.  Note that most of
> >> the major newspapers have ignored the story the only exception being
the
> >> Washingtonian - which called the idea of E-mail surcharge "a useful
> >> concept who's time has come"
> >> (March 6th, 1999 Editorial).     Do not sit by and watch your freedom
> >> erode away!  Send this E-mail to EVERYONE on your list, and tell all
> >> your friends and relatives to write their congressional representative
> >> 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 do not want.
> >> PLEASE FORWARD!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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