Re: Vote NO *** BOGUS/Urban Legend !!!

["Leslie Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Pretty laughable since Congress isn't even in session, they are all at the
respective national conventions.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Lewis <clewis@iquest.net>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: Vote NO *** BOGUS/Urban Legend !!!


>Sorry Folks,
>
>This is bogus and an "Urban Legend", NO truth to it...
>
>Chuck
>
>Richard Spangenberg wrote:
>
>> Subject: VOTE NO!!!!!!!!
>>
>> You are not planning on charging you 5-cents for each email you send and
>> give it to the US Post Office to compensate them for business lost!
>>
>> VOTE NO ON Bill 602P!!!!
>>
>> I guess the warnings were true. Federal Bill 602P will charge you 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 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. 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
>> whose time has come" (March 6th, 1999 Editorial). Do not sit by and watch
>> your freedom erode away! Send this to E-mail to EVERYONE on your list,
and
>> tell all your friends and relatives 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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