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TurboGN
Senior Member
Registered: May 2001
Location: Beaumont, Texas
Posts: 100
Stevex, I agree with you. I know its a little off-subject but check this out:
Subject: Federal Bill 602P-Mail Charge
Subject: Federal Bill 602P-Mail Charge (I can't believe we will be charged for our internet services, over and above what we already pay, but.........)
Guess the warnings were true. Federal Bill 602P charges 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 Richard 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 $180per 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 (R) 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
__________________
87 GN, Tomka cold air, translator, PTA49, V4, SMC alky, Precision plenum w/PP, ported intake w/o EGR tower, Champion irons, TH downpipe, ATR 2 1/2 w/pittbulls, gutted cat, BFG Drag 275/50/15's on Cragar Streetlite II's, Blaupunkt Casa Blanca with amp/subwoofer, Joe Newmann paint job. "When the turbo spins the bull**** ends!!!"
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June 22nd, 2004 02:35 PM
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I am reposting this from the tech forum because I felt that it would not get the attention & exposure that it deserves. I am neither condemming nor condoning this info, but I do find it very interesting. I hope that the original author has no problem with me posting it here.
TurboGN
Senior Member
Registered: May 2001
Location: Beaumont, Texas
Posts: 100
Stevex, I agree with you. I know its a little off-subject but check this out:
Subject: Federal Bill 602P-Mail Charge
Subject: Federal Bill 602P-Mail Charge (I can't believe we will be charged for our internet services, over and above what we already pay, but.........)
Guess the warnings were true. Federal Bill 602P charges 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 Richard 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 $180per 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 (R) 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
__________________
87 GN, Tomka cold air, translator, PTA49, V4, SMC alky, Precision plenum w/PP, ported intake w/o EGR tower, Champion irons, TH downpipe, ATR 2 1/2 w/pittbulls, gutted cat, BFG Drag 275/50/15's on Cragar Streetlite II's, Blaupunkt Casa Blanca with amp/subwoofer, Joe Newmann paint job. "When the turbo spins the bull**** ends!!!"
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June 22nd, 2004 02:35 PM
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I am reposting this from the tech forum because I felt that it would not get the attention & exposure that it deserves. I am neither condemming nor condoning this info, but I do find it very interesting. I hope that the original author has no problem with me posting it here.
