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

2002年7月22日 12:51:00 -0500

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At 06:53 07/22/2002 -0700, WA4CVV wrote:
>>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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