On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Bob Soron wrote:
> ... but it was vague and late. It took a while to find some
> confirmation of this --
> http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/18420.html -- but I
> didn't want to say anything until I had it. Although I'm glad Dave
> posted CIAC's hoax page URL, and everyone should check it out before
> sending out that sort of thing, it's also good to make sure it *is* a
> hoax before labeling it one. Sermon over.
Also just happened to run into this while perusing the Postcard digest:
> Dan and Scott have both pointed out that this is a hoax - I by NO means
> want to start a debate about this, but I want to clarify the issue here.
> The FCC and phone companies are NOT trying to tax the Internet, and
> Congress will not approve anything of the sort. The issue is
> specifically using the Internet to make "long distance phone calls".
> It's pretty easy to imagine: people with microphones and Real Audio
> feeds can talk to each other, albeit at a delay, without having to dial
> a long distance number. This is what has the phone companies up in arms
> and this is why they're leaning hard on the FCC.
That seems to sum it up pretty well.--don
