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From: dick <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thursday, September 16, 1999 5:22 PM
Subject: Fw: Internet Costs > Important!


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>>Subject: Fw: Internet Costs > Important!
>>Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 07:25:15 -0400
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>>Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 12:51 AM
>>Subject: Internet Costs > Important!
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>>> [log in to unmask] - http://www.Zipstreet.com
>>>
>>> FYI,
>>> 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.
>>> Complain to your Congressperson. We can't allow this to pass!
>>> The following address will allow you to send an e-mail on this subject
>>> DIRECTLY to your Congressperson.
>>> http://www.house.gov/writerep, 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. 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 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.
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
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