-Caveat Lector-
Subject:
INTERNET MAIL FEES COMING?!
Date:
Sat, 9 Oct 1999 21:24:41 EDT
From:
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To:
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To all of you not-so-wealthy-in-America Internet users:
Following is an e-mail received this week, which should be addressed as
soon
as you can get to it. A few lines will do, and you can send your message
by
e-mail (fast, immediate, and surcharge-free (unless or until these bills
are
passed). I have already sent my note!
Angie
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INTERNET MAIL FEES COMING?!
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 a 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 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
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
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 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 e-mail 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 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 (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 who's time has come" (March 6th, 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 YOUR VOICE BE HEARD
NOW, NOT
AFTER
From:
Rebecca Shortridge, Assistant Professor of Accounting
Department of Accountancy and Business Law
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403-3297
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 910-962-3969 Fax: 910-962-3815
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