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

[Lee Lorentz]

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At 06:53 07/22/2002 -0700, WA4CVV wrote:
>
>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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Lee Lorentz  WB0TRA
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