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From: melanie poole <[email protected]>
To: Helen Callaway <[email protected]>; Jim Hayes <[email protected]>;
Leisa A. Hayes <[email protected]>; Judy M. Trevillion
<[email protected]>; Dixie Morris <[email protected]>; Joni K. Liebel
<[email protected]>; Becky Brown <[email protected]>; Benny Still
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Al Colley <[email protected]>; Debbie Trevillion Cranford
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Moore Henderson <[email protected]>; Greer Dixon
<[email protected]>; Mary Stewart Trevillion <[email protected]>;
Adreinne Mueller <[email protected]>; Will Colley
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Subject: Fw: FYI
Date: Thursday, October 21, 1999 2:58 PM
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Minter <[email protected]>
To: Sherrod Rodgers <[email protected]>; Wyman and Melanie Poole
<[email protected]>; Paul Minter <[email protected]>;
Mark Minter <[email protected]>; Kay B. Lusk <[email protected]>;
Steve Dixon <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 11:54 AM
Subject: FW: FYI
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Walker [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 2:47 PM
To: Dave Minter; Bill Thompson
Subject: FW: FYI
-----Original Message-----
From: Roccograndi [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 8:25 AM
To: Garry Yaworski; Tyler Walters; Robert Walker; Paul Vaglienti; Steve
Updike; Strickland, Jeremy; Russ Stewart; Paul William Starnes; Lara
Stabell; Mike Spurlin; Jester; Steve Smardan; Tammie Rock; Maggie
Roccograndi; JODI; Rocky; Addy Robinson; Steve Robbins; Penny Neff; Morris,
Allison; Rob McGovern; Beth McFayden; Kim Margolis; Dave Lowd; Toby Kaplan;
Kim Kaplan; Dave Jones; Eric Johnson; Pete Jaworski; Julie Jacques; J.C.K.;
Kimball Ingram; Deborah Howard; Bill Hevener; Al Hess; Hanson, Michelle;
Sandy Guiletti; Jay Grogan; Brian Giavedoni; Sharon Generotti; Ron Garrett;
Leo Filteau; David Duggan; Larry Derby; Sandy Cooper; Laurie Cole; Christy
Clifford; Ann Marie Chaffee; Patricia Bowman; Pat Bowman; Greg Blaha; Danny
H Barker
Subject: FYI
I don't know the details about this but if it is what the email says it
is we could all end up paying more for our internet.
Subject: Stamps for email?
Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay on-line 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 US. 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 the
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 noninterference. 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 bureaucratic inefficiency. It currently takes
up to 6 days for a letter to be delivered from New York City 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 whose time has come" (March 6, 1999 Editorial)
Don't sit by and watch your freedom erode away! Send this email to
all Americans on your list and tell your friends and relatives to write
to their congressman and say "No!" to Bill 602P.
Kate Turner
Assistant to Richard Stepp
Berger, Stepp and Gorman
Attorneys at Law
216 Concorde Street
Vienna, VA
URGENT!!!! Pass this along to all your email buddies!
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