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Camilla: You are very correct in catching this as a rumor/hoax. This thing will just not die......probably since many people will react to this type of post rather than take 10 minutes to check it out. See also website http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa012099.htm?pid=2733&cob=home for this and other rumors, hoax and others......Jack At 11:35 2/24/1999 -0500, Camilla Flintermann wrote: >I believe this has gone around before, but here's the refutation again of >the story that FCC plans to charge for internet access on your phone >bill....just another urban Legend, so please DO NOT forward the charge ! > >########## >There is a message floating around the Net right now saying that > > CNN stated that the Government would in two weeks time decide to > allow or not allow a charge to your phone bill equal to a Long > Distance call EACH time you access the Internet. > >CNN did indeed report this on November 7th, 1998, but CNN's story is >just flat out wrong. Four days after CNN's story first aired, Federal >Communications Commission chairman William Kennard made the following >statement at a meeting of the National Association of Regulatory >Commissioners: > > For reasons that escape me, there are those who regularly suggest > that the FCC is considering the imposition of per minute charges > on Internet providers. The forces behind these rumors are doing > a disservice to the American consumer, because in fact nothing > could be further from the truth. But somehow these rumors keep > arising, often on the Internet itself. I know, because I receive > hundreds and thousands of e-mails every time this rumor arises. > > I know that many of the e-mails I receive are from well-meaning, > but misinformed, people who are concerned about the future of the > Internet. I applaud their vigilance and I am glad to assure them > that the FCC is not about to impose per minute charges on the > Internet. > >In other words, CNN's story is false. For more information, take a >look at > ><a href="http://korova.com/virus/hoax981220.htm"> >http://korova.com/virus/hoax981220.htm </a>. > > >Camilla Flintermann, CG for Peter 80/70/55 >Oxford, Ohio >http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/camilla/one.htm ><[log in to unmask]> > > "Ask me about the CARE list for > Caregivers of Parkinsonians ! " > >