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From: Trey Pattillo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 10:23 PM
To: MapInfo List
Subject: MI Bill 602P pertaining to surcharge on E Mail
JUST GOT THIS EMAILED TO ME -- Trey Pattillo
Subject: Bill 602P pertaining to surcharge on E Mail
>>
>>Please read the following carefully if you intend to
>>stay online and continue using email: 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 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 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 bureacratic
>>efficiency. 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 email to all Americans on your list and tell
>>your friends and relatives to write to their
>>congressman and say "No!" to Bill 602P.
>>
>>Kate Turner
>>Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger, Stepp and Gorman
>>Attorneys at Law 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, Va.
>>
>>
>>
>>It's the action, not the fruit of the action that's important.
>>You have to do the right thing... You may never know what results
>>come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
>(Gandhi)
>
>
Trey Pattillo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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