Joy:At 07:00 PM 3/16/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I just wondered if the proposal now floating through congress, Bill 602P
>that purports to charge $.05 for each e-mail and will be billed from each
>ISP has come to the attention of the list?
>
>The charge for a typical day of several hundred e-mail could easily make
>$15.
This is a hoax. It's come up and been spread several times a year
for the last several years, complete with a "bill number," that doesn't
actually exist. Whatever you may think of those guys in Congress, they are
not actually stupid (although they sometimes seem so). Similarly, the
'knowledge' that the FCC is considering imposing a tax on email is a
hoax. There are several sites that you can use to check up on these things:
For virus warnings check one of the following:
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/hoax.html
http://www.f-secure.com/news/hoax/
http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp?
For urban legends:
http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/
- Dick
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