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---------- > From: Greenwood, Jean M <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; 'KK' <[log in to unmask]>; 'Diana' <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; 'Jim R' <[log in to unmask]>; 'Stan & Llinda' <[log in to unmask]>; 'Jeff' <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; smith, jim <[log in to unmask]>; Strout, Susan E <[log in to unmask]>; 'Dave Harville' <[log in to unmask]>; 'Brian' <[log in to unmask]>; 'Norma' <[log in to unmask]>; Greenwood, Jean M <[log in to unmask]>; Cookson, Kevin <[log in to unmask]>; Eckhardt, Barbara A <[log in to unmask]>; Laskey, Rob <[log in to unmask]>; Lathrop, Maureen S <[log in to unmask]>; Manning, Randal C <[log in to unmask]>; Mansir, Bernice J <[log in to unmask]>; Plummer, Vickie <[log in to unmask]>; Sprague, Dan <[log in to unmask]> > 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! > > > > 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 > > > > > > >