Whos *your Inquisitional Service Provider, eh? (or, Where Australia leads, will Canada be far behind?) ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Judyth Mermelstein) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Canada Post Press Release on E-mail Tax Hoax Date: 21 Apr 1999 14:23:31 GMT Organization: Babylon, Montreal, Canada http://www.newswire.ca/releases/April1999/20/c4381.html Internet Rumour: Canada Post Sets the Record Straight OTTAWA, April 20 /CNW/ - Canada Post Corporation wants to inform Canadians that the Internet rumour about plans for a 5-cent charge to be applied to every e-mail message delivered by an Internet service provider is entirely fictitious and has no basis in fact. Last week, Canada Post discovered a message posted on the Internet suggesting that legislation was being pushed through the House of Commons that would see the corporation and the federal government benefit from a 5-cent tax on every e-mail delivered. ``There is absolutely no truth to the story,'' says Alain Guilbert, Canada Post's Vice-president of Communications. ``In fact, the Liberal Member of Parliament, the Bill, and the Toronto lawyer named in the story don't even exist.'' | Canada Post threatened legal action against the Internet service | provider and shortly thereafter a full-page apology was posted on | the Internet discussion group where the message first appeared. [...]
