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To: Janice Shell who wrote (639)8/19/2000 2:04:45 AM
From: J. Nelson  Read Replies (3) of 1426
 
ANYONE SEE THIS INFORMATION???? & WISH TO TALK ABOUT IT???

Subject: IMPORTANT ! ! ! Vote NO on Bill 602P
VOTE NO ON Bill 602P!!!!

I 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 assess 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 that the
Government
of the United States is 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 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 the 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, which is costing them 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 per 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 noninterference.
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. 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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