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--- Ron AllyNOTn Swartley <Archangel1390@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>
> Subject: Federal Bill 602P-Mail Charge
>
> Guess the warnings were true. Federal Bill 602P
> charges 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 inefficiency. 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.
>
> 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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