[Logic] Email and it will cost you!!!

[JAMES T BRANNIGAN]

Jennifer,
This is a very old "urban legend" and it is completely untrue.

If you feel differently, I have an old East River bridge that is for sale.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Paterson" <wa4cvv@yahoo.com>
To: <logic@mailman.qth.net>
Cc: <sbig@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 9:53 AM
Subject: [Logic] Email and it will cost you!!!


>
> Sorry for the bandwith.
>
> --- Jennifer Paterson <wa4cvv@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Please pass this along.
>
> 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 deliveredE-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 thatt 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 workingd
> without pay prevent this legislation from becoming
> law.
>
> The US Postal Service is claiming lost revenue, due
> to 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 cost.
>
> Note thats 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 clurrently 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 representativee, 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 this along friends.  If you send or receive a lot a e-mail it will
cost you.
>
> Jennifer
>
> wa4cvv@yahoo.com