umm DML is already running off newsgroups correct? =)
Wes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Levy" <andylevy@yahoo.com>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: DML: If this bill gets passed....good bye DML.
> Because Barnum was right. There really is a sucker born every minute,
> especially on the internet.
>
> A. Bright wrote:
>
> >
> > this is a hoax. why is it so hard to stop this thing from spreading??
> > (sigh)
> >
> > At 04:16 PM 08/19/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >>ALSO: What implications would this have for AIM???
> >>
> >>Subject: New Bill
> >>
> >>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 n 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-ail
> >>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
> >>non-interference.
> >> 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
> >> &nbs! p; 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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> >
> >
>
> --
> -andy
> andylevy@yahoo.com
> Maintainer, DML FAQ - http://www.dakota-truck.net/faq/
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> '99 CC 4x4 318 auto
>
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