This is a HOAX.
There is no partnership "Berger, Stepp and Gorman, Barristers at Law",
listed in the Toronto telephone directory.
There is no MP named Tony Schnell.
There is no building at 216 Bay St.
The address range that corresponds to Postal Code "M1L 3C6" is 1- 23
Stellarton Road in Scarborough.
There was no editorial on an E-mail tax in The Toronto Star on 6 March 1999.
There is no bill 602P. Nomenclature for House of Commons Private Members'
Public Bills is C-201to C-1001.
This is similar to the hoax perpetrated in the past about the U.S.
Government imposing a modem tax for access to the Internet.
I got this info from http://tenvolt.com/distractions/taxhoax.htm
Please don't pass these kinds of messages on. If you do get a message that
you aren't sure about, then check out if it is real or not before you send
it on. All you have to do is put a few key words in a search engine and
see what turns up.
Chris Duke
- For a Spam Free Interent -
At 01:40 PM 6/4/99 -0700, you wrote:
>hey this not modest mouse... but it would suck--READ THIS
>
>>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 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.
>
>
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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