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    Master OptiBoarder MVEYES's Avatar
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    Question Is it true

    Subject: Federal Bill #602 Warning

    Guess the warnings were true. Federal
    Bill 602P 5-cents per E-mail sent. It
    figures! No more free E-mail! 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, 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 person received about
    10 pieces of E-mail per day in 1998, the
    cost of 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
    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.

    Congressional representative, Tony
    Schnell (R) 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 who's time
    has come" (March 6th, 1999 Editorial).
    Do not sit by and watch your freedom
    erode away!

    Send this E-mail to EVERYONE on your
    list, and tell all your friends and relatives
    to write their congressional
    representative and say "NO" to Bill 602
    It will only take a few moments of your
    time and could very well be instrumental
    in killing a bill we do not want.


    Jerry
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    Jerry, I am happy to inform you that this is a hoax that has been
    going around for the past year or two.

    No such animal exists!!!

    Bob V.

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    As Bob said, this is a hoax:

    http://www.house.gov/sawyer/bill602p.htm


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    Thumbs up Thanks for clearing that up

    That would be disastorus for all of us who have been spoiled by the great communication network the internet offers.



    :D :bbg: :cheers: Jerry
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    I already sent my ten cents in for today. I hope they get it...I put it in the mail...

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    Crier On another note

    While the above may not be true this is,Link here A lot of free services are stopping and now charging for their services....

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    Lightbulb John R

    I've seen sites like Call Wave which is an internet answering machine try to go from free to pay. They still offer a limited free service of 10 hours a month for individual usage. Hopefully the marketing experts will figure out that people love free stuff and use it to their advantage. Mail.com is a good example. You can sign up with an e-mail address of JohnR@optician.com from them but you get a ton of popup ads.


    :D Jerry
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    Bad address email on file John R's Avatar
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    Wave

    Jerry thanks for the headup there on that email addy, :bbg: I'll pass ta, Also having your own domain name makes things so much easier on the mail side..
    I did have a @email address which i used as a forwarding box but they are now charging for the service.
    This seems to be the way everyone is going now all the freebies are disapearing in a cloud of charges, but what can we expect someone has to pay so why not us......
    Last edited by John R; 09-24-2004 at 03:16 PM.

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    Wink

    Yes I have already found out that this is a hoax a while ago...Gosh can you imagine??? I would have already spent about $50 today!! LOL!

    Steph

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    Same here. If it was not a hoax then i would have a pretty good tab for the day already. ;)

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