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Here is a link to your congressman. If you disapprove of the upcoming bill
to charge a fee for use of the internet, please let him know.
Bob Kassal
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Subject: [Fwd: Fw: CHARGE A TOLL FEE for Internet access? Read This
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Date: Friday, December 03, 1999 8:35 PM
Subject: Fwd: CHARGE A TOLL FEE for Internet access? Read This (172503)
From: 78615@ <78615@>
Subject: CHARGE A TOLL FEE for Internet access? Read This (172503)
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:01:49 -0400 (EDT)
CNN has reported that within the next two weeks Congress is going to
vote
on
allowing telephone companies to CHARGE A TOLL FEE for Internet access.
Translation: Every time we send a long distance e-mail we will receive
a
long
distance charge. This will get costly. Please visit the following web
site
and
file a complaint to your Congressperson. We can't allow this to pass!
The
following address will allow you tosend an e-mail on this subject
DIRECTLY
to
your Congressperson. http://www.house.gov/writerep
Pass this on to your friends. It is urgent! I hope all of you will
pass
this on
to all your friends and family. We should ALL have an interest in
this
one.
WAIT, THERE'S MORE! IN ADDITION, 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 your use of the Internet. Under proposed
legislation the U.S. Postal Service will be attempting to bilk email
users
out
of "alternate postage fees". 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 U.S. Postal Service is claiming
that
lost
revenue due to the proliferation of e-mail costing nearly $230,000,000
in
revenue per year. (Oh, isn't that too bad?) 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 U.S. Postal Service for a service they do not even
provide.
The whole point of the Internet is democracy and non-interference. If
the
federal government is permitted to tamper with our liberties by adding
a
surcharge to email, who knows where it will end. You are already
paying
an
exorbitant price for snail mail because of bureaucratic inefficiency.
It
currently takes up to 6 days for a letter to be delivered from New
York
to
Buffalo. If the U.S. Postal Service is allowed to tinker with email,
it
will
mark the end of the "free" Internet in the United States.
One congressman, Tony Schnell (r) has even suggested a "twenty to
forty
dollar
per month surcharge on all Internet service" above and beyond the
government's
proposed email charges. Note that most of the major newspapers have
ignored the
story, the only exception being the Washingtonian which called the
idea
of
surcharge "a useful concept whose time has come" (March 6th, 1999
Editorial).
Don't sit by and watch your freedoms erode away! Send this e-mail to
EVERYONE on
your list, and tell all your friends and relatives to write to their
Congressman
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 don't want.
PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO USES EMAIL REMEMBER THESE ARE
TWO
SEPARATE
ISSUES THAT EFFECT ALL OF US ONLINE LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD
NOW, NOT AFTER.
92825
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
The site - http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html#internetcharge shows
this is a long standing internet myth. If you go to that site before
publishing such things you can avoid the embarassment and waste of band
width.
I think the email tax is down the same list a few items
Jim