I just wanted everyone to know that this email is a hoax!
I have received it before and checked it out - it is all false. There is no such bill
number, and the lawyer and representative the email list do not exist.
Please DO NOT forward this on to others.
Try scambusters.com - it's a great website to see if an email is legit or if it is
just urban legend.
Dani Foster
Nationwide Compliance Service
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Collins [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 5:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MI-L Email = 5 cents per - ON Bill 602P!!!!
Subject: VOTE NO ON Bill 602P!!!!
I guess the warnings were true. Federal Bill 602P will charge you 5 cents
per E-mail Sent. It figures! NO MORE FREE EMAIL!
We knew this was coming!! Bill 602P will permit the Federal Government to
charge 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 the Government of the
United States 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 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. It is costing the post office nearly $230,000,000 in lost potential
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 to the typical individual would be an
additional 50 cents a 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 post office "snail mail" because of
bureaucratic inefficiency. 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.
Our congressional representative, Tony Schnell, 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 whose time has come" (March 6th, 1999
Editorial).
Do not sit by and watch your freedom erode away! Send this to E-mail to
EVERYONE on your list, and tell all your friends and relatives 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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