Folks,
No need for a deluge of reply comments to any of these lists regarding this
message - this message should suffice - and please if you sent this message out
to anyone - do us all a favor and forward out my comments refutting this hoax
back up your e-mail tree.
Using these resource http://www.snopes.com/ specifically
http://www.snopes.com/info/current.htm
you can read the following information debunking of this annoying "real" e-mail
that has been wasting bandwidth for years.
Here is the response from Snooe.com
5¢ Surcharge on E-mail
Congress or the Canadian government is about to impose a 5¢ surcharge
per e-mail.Status: False.
No, this is not happening. There is no Bill 602P, and no public-minded
lawyer named Richard Stepp. Visit our A Long Pay From Home page for this
hoax's tortured history.
Bottom line? This is false - please research any "incredible" announcements
you get like this before wasting space on a public list such as GRASS. This is
not the medium for such things.
R. Joe Brandon
jbrowne wrote:
This was sent to me by one of my workers who knows these people. With that
proviso... Think of what this would do to mailservers and other development
communications.
Jim>===== Original Message From Bella24267@aol.com =====
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From: "Millard,Scott" <SMillard@kennesaw.Lawco.com>
To: Pucks1969 <Pucks1969@aol.com>,
Bella24267 <Bella24267@aol.com>
Subject: FWD: You should act on thisScott A. Millard
Engineering Technician II
LawGibb
5845 N.W. 158th Street
Miami Lakes, Florida 33014
Phone: (305) 826-5588 (extension 228)
Fax: (305) 826-1799
Smillard@Lawco.com <mailto:Smillard@Lawco.com>-----Original Message-----
From: Borgen,Nelson
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 11:49 AM
To: Adasme, Sergio; Alvarez, Armando; Benitez, Michelle;
Bernal, Ricardo; Cunningham, Keary; De La Uz, Julia; Donaire, Cecile;
Kanakis, George; Knight, Juliette; Larkin, Brendan; Millard, Scott; Ospina,
Daura; Proenza, Maggie; Rajkumar, Paul; Ruiz, Rodolfo; Ryba, Todd; Shortt,
Anthony; Velasquez, Manolo
Subject: FW: You should act on thisNelson A. Borgen
LawGibb Group, Inc.
5845 N.W. 158th Street
Miami, Florida 33014
Phone: 305/826-5588 / Ext. 230
Fax: 305/826-1799
E-Mail: NBORGEN@kennesaw.Lawco.com-----Original Message-----
From: Alvarez,Armando
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 11:45 AM
To: Borgen,Nelson; Adasme,Sergio;
Kanakis,George; 'Fred and the Boys'; Gomez,Joe
Subject: You should act on this> Keep this passing along.
> Our Reps do listen when we write them.
>
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>
> CNN has reported that within the next two
weeks
> Congress is going to vote on allowing
telephone
> companies to CHARGE A TOLL FEE for
Internet access.
> Translation: Every time we send a long
distance e-mail
> we will receive a long distance charge.
This will get
> costly. Please visit the following web
site and file a
> complaint to your Congressperson. We
can't allow this
> to pass! The following address will allow
you to send
> an e-mail on this subject DIRECTLY to your
Congressperson.
>
> http://www.house.gov/writerep
<http://www.house.gov/writerep>
>
> WAIT, THERE'S MORE! IN ADDITION, 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 US Postal
Service will
> be attempting to bilk e-mail users out of
"alternate
> postage fees". Bill 602P will permit the
Federal
> Government to charge a 5 cent surcharge on
every e-mail
> delivered, by billing Internet Service
Providers at the
> source. The consumer would then be billed
in turn by
> the ISP. The US Postal Service is
claiming that lost
> revenue due to the proliferation of e-mail
is costing
> nearly $230 million in revenue per year.
(Oh, isn't
> that too bad? Maybe they should actually
read the
> Constitution.) You may have noticed their
recent ad
> campaign "There is nothing like a letter".
>
> Since the average citizen received about
10 pieces of
> e-mail 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 US Postal Service for
a service
> they do not even provide. If the federal
government
> is permitted to tamper with our liberties
by adding
> a surcharge to e-mail, who knows where it
will end.
>
> You are already paying an exorbitant price
for snail
> mail because of bureaucratic inefficiency.
It
> currently takes up to 6 days for a letter
to be
> delivered from New York to Buffalo. If
the US Postal
> Service is allowed to tinker with e-mail,
it will mark
> the end of the "free" Internet in the
United States.
> One congressman, Tony Schnell, has even
suggested a
> "twenty to forty dollar per month
surcharge on all
> Internet service" above and beyond the
government's
> proposed e-mail charges. (Remember, you
already pay
> at least 65% tax on residential phone
service as it is.)
> Note that most of the major newspapers
have ignored
> the story, the only exception being the
Washingtonian
> which called the idea of e-mail surcharge
"a useful
> concept whose time has come" -
SCARY!(March 6th, 1999
> Editorial).
>
> Don't sit by and watch your freedoms erode
away! Send
> this e-mail to EVERYONE on your list, and
tell all
> your friends and relatives to write their
Congressman
> and say "No!" to Bill 602P. It will only
take a few
> moments of your time, and could very well
be instrumental
> in killing a bill we don't want.
>
> PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO USES
> REMEMBER THESE ARE TWO SEPARATE ISSUES
THAT EFFECT ALL
> OF US ONLINE. LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD
NOW, NOT AFTER.