Colext/Macondo Cantina virtual de los COLombianos en el EXTerior -------------------------------------------------- Dear Friends, any of you know the veracity of this information:?? >CNN has reported that within the next two weeks Congress is going to >vote on allowing telephone companies to CHARGE A TOLL FEE for >internet access. >Translation: >Every time we send long distance e-mail we will receive a long >distance charge. This will get costly. Please visit the following web >site and file a complaint. Complain to your Congressperson. We can't >allow this to pass. The following address will allow you to send an >e-mail on this subject DIRECTLY to your Congressperson. > > >http://www.house.gov/writerep > >Pass this on to your friends. It is urgent! I hope all of you will >pass this on to all your friends and family. We should ALL have an >interest in this one. > >WAIT, THERE'S MORE. IN ADDITION, 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 bill 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 there >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 bureaucratic >inefficiency. 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 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 6, 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. > >PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO USES EMAIL REMEMBER THESE ARE >TWO SEPARATE ISSUES THAT EFFECT ALL OF US ONLINE. LET YOU VOICE BE >HEARD NOW, NOT AFTER Juan A. Lopez -------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE COLEXT as the BODY of the message. Un archivo de colext puede encontrarse en: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ cortesia de Anibal Monsalve Salazar
