The whole world (except for BARTERDUDE, I guess) knows about this FRAUD.
Let's hope he loses his email privileges for flooding our mail with junk
like this.
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Date: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 6:28 AM
Subject: FWD: Do you want to have to PAY for free email?
>> >> DON'T DELETE THIS ONE
>> >> STOP OUR GOV 'T FROM TAMPERING WITH OUR
>> >> FREE E-MAIL !!!!
>> >>
>> >> 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 bureacratic 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, V
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