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  • From: EvansKnob AT aol.com
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Now the government is trying to charge our internet!!!!
  • Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:48:50 EST




Subject: Bill 602 P

VOTE NO ON Bill 602P!!!!

I 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 efficiency. 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 (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 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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