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From: "Gene & Helen Keusch" <>
Subject: Re: Hoax-- Federal Bill 602P 5-cents per E-mail sent.
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:31:44 -0800


Don't know exactly to whom this is going except to the Gibson mail list.
This is a hoax-- no need to forward. To begin with, House and Senate
Bills are not labled with the "P" . And just within the past month I read
in one of the newspapers (can't recall if it was our local or the Evansville
paper) about this e-mail hoax. Just passing the word to "grave news"
-----Original Message-----
From: <>
To: <>
Date: Friday, March 09, 2001 5:09 AM
Subject: Federal Bill 602P 5-cents per E-mail sent.


>
>Subject: B# 602P
>VOTE NO ON Bill 602P!!!!
>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 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 o! ut 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 efficiency. 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. A 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
>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 FORWARD!
>
>
>
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