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> Subject: FW: FW: Let's Stop This!
> Date: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 8:27 AM
>
> Unreal - when will the politicians learn to leave our freedoms alone.
>
>               -----Original Message-----
>               From:   Dee Ryan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> <mailto:[mailto:[log in to unmask]]>
>               Sent:   Tuesday, June 15, 1999 9:32 PM
>               To:     Norma M Fitzherbert; Marlene Gallant; Greenwood,
> Jean M; Jann C. Minzy; Germaine Bell; Gary Benoit; Donna Dachs; Dick
> Partridge; Deb Donnelly; Charlie Monteith; Anna Strout; Crystal Wheeler
>               Subject:        Fw: FW: Let's Stop This!
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>               Subject:        Let's Stop This!
>
>
>               Date:   Friday, May 28, 1999 7:16 AM
>               Subject:        This is amazing!
>               Subject:        FW: Internet Legislation
>
>
>
>               Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay
> online and
>               continue using email: 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 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 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
> efficiency.
>               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
> email
>               surcharge "a useful concept who's 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.
>               Kate Turner
>               Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger, Stepp and Gorman
>               Attorneys at Law 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, VA
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