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Greetings! This is very important to post on each list and send on to everyone

on

your email list. There are some long distance phone companies offering 5

cents/minute phone calls. If anybody should pay this fee, it should be the

companies that get free advertising through SPAM. I get more SPAM from the

groups than I get emails even from the individual lists although I've

requested

it be eliminated. I just continue to delete, delete, delete......

I know this is off the subject, but this mode of communication shouldn't be

regulated like this.

With Much Respect,

Marlena Orndorff

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> Subject: Federal Bill 602P

> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:25:32 -0600

> From: vrobbins@...

> LDoyle4094@...

>

> 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 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 ® 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

> 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!