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From: Jonathan Wert <>
Subject: Unidentified subject!
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:21:47 -0400


Anyone know if this is for real or a hoax this time??? I receive something
like this about every month.

I just got this e-mail. I figured this was coming. Maybe you have
already responded?
Al
Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt. to charge
>> > a 5 cent surcharge on every email delivered, by billing Internet

>> > Service Providers at source. The consumer would then be
>> > billed in turn by the ISP.
>> >
>> > Washington D.C. lawyer Richard Stepp is
>> > working without pay to prevent this legislation from
>> > becoming law.
>> >
>> > The US Postal Service is claiming that
>> > lost revenue due to the proliferation of email 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 citizen received about 10 pieces
>> > of email per day in 1998, the cost to the typical
>> > individual would be an additional 50 cents per day,
>> > or over $180 dollars 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
>> > noninterference. If the federal government is
>> > permitted to tamper with our liberties by adding
>> > a surcharge to email, who knows where it will end.
>> >
>> >
>> > IF Postal Service is allowed to tinker with email,
>> > it will mark the end of the "free" Internet in the United
States.
>> >
>> > Most major newspapers have ignored the story,
>> > the only exception, The Washingtonian,
>> > which called the idea of email surcharge
>> > "a useful concept who's time has come"
>> > ( March 6th 1999 Editorial)
>> >
>> > Don't sit by and watch MORE of your freedoms erode away!
>> >
>> > Send this email to all Americans on your list and tell
>> > your friends and relatives to write to their congressman
>> > and say "No!" to Bill 602P
>> > Kate Turner, Asst. to
>> > Richard Stepp, Berger, Stepp & Gorman
>> > Attorneys-at-law
>> > 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, Va.

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