Fw: Fw: (community) 5-cent surcharge on every e-mail? tellyour congress...

From: Aaron (acolona@i-55.com)
Date: Thu Oct 21 1999 - 18:56:32 EDT


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>
>
> > e-mail? tell your congressman
> > NO!
> >
> >
> > |
> > |Since many of us use e-mail for business and to
> > keep up with friends
> > |and
> > |family, I thought you'd like to know the following.
> > Please jump on it
> > |right away and forward this to others.
> > |
> > |
> > |CNN has reported that within the next two weeks
> > |Congress is going to vote on allowing telephone
> > companies to CHARGE A
> > |TOLL FEE for Internet access. Translation: Every
> > time we send a long
> > |distance e-mail we will receive a long distance
> > charge. This will get
> > |costly.
> > |
> > |Please visit the following web site and file a
> > complaint. Complain
> > |to
> > |your Congressperson. We can't allow this to pass!
> > |
> > |The following address will allow you to send an
> > e-mail on this
> > |subject
> > |
> > |DIRECTLY to your Congressperson.
> > |
> > |http://www.house.gov/writerep
> > |
> > |Pass this on to your friends. It is urgent! I hope
> > all of you will
> > |pass this on to all your friends and family. We
> > should ALL have an
> > |interest in this one. WAIT, THERE'S MORE. IN
> > ADDITION, 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 U.S. Postal Service
> > will be attempting
> > |to bilk email users out of "alternate postage
> > fees".
> > |
> > |Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt to charge a
> > 5 cent surcharge
> > |on every email
> > |delivered, by billing Internet Service Providers
> > at source.
> > |
> > |The consumer would then be billed in turn by the
> > ISP.
> > |
> > |
> > |Washington D.C. lawyer Richard Stepp is working
> > without pay to
> > |prevent this legislation from becoming law. The
> > U.S. 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
> > |noticed
> > |their recent ad campaign "There is nothing like a
> > letter". Since the
> > |average citizen received about 10 pieces of email
> > per 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
> > U.S. 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 our
> > liberties by adding a
> > |surcharge to email, who knows where it will end.
> > 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 New York to
> > |Buffalo. If the U.S. 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 (r) 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.
> > |
> > |PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO USES EMAIL
> > REMEMBER THESE ARE
> > |TWO SEPARATE ISSUES THAT EFFECT ALL OF US ONLINE
> > LET YOUR VOICE BE
> > |HEARD NOW, NOT AFTER.
> > |
> > |
> > |
> > |
> > |
> > |
> > |
> > |
> > |it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or
> > other commercial
> > interests
> > |
> > |
> > |
> > |
> > |
> >
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