[Logic] Email and it will cost you!!!

2002年7月22日 06:53:56 -0700 (PDT)

Sorry for the bandwith.
--- Jennifer Paterson <[email protected]> wrote:

Please pass this along.
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 deliveredE-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 thatt 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 workingd
without pay prevent this legislation from becoming
law.
The US Postal Service is claiming lost revenue, due
to proliferation of e-mail, is costing nearly
230,000,000ドル 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ドル per year --above and beyond their regular
Internet cost.
Note thats 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 clurrently 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 representativee, tony Schnell (R) has
even suggested a "20ドル-40ドル 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 this along friends. If you send or receive a lot a e-mail it will cost you.
Jennifer
[email protected]
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