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

[Carl J. Denbow]

Though this is a variant of an old hoax, I think there would be=
 one 
such email tax that we'd all support.  How about a 5 cent per=
 email 
tax on all spam artists?  Maybe anybody who sent one or more=
 emails 
each addressed to more than 500 people in any 24 hour period.  I=
 
think I'll write my congressman about that! ; - )

73

Carl


-- Carl J. Denbow, n8vz@fptoday.com on 07/22/2002


On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:06:27 -0400, JAMES T BRANNIGAN wrote:
>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
>
>
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