READ THIS BULLSH1T

[Four and Twenty 0]

> The government is trying to get our money in every way possible.

>

> Subject: E-mail charges

> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 07:47:11 -0500

>

> Looks like your Bush tax return is already spent!!!!

> Guess the warnings were true.  Federal Bill 602P 5-cents per E-mail

> sent. It figures!  No more free E-mail!  We knew this was coming!!  Bill

> 602P will permit the Federal Government to charge a 5-cent charge on every

> delivered E-mail.  Please read the following carefully if you intend

>to stay

> online and continue using E-mail.

> 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 our use of the Internet.  Under proposed legislation, the US

> Postal Service will be attempting to bill E-mail users out of "alternative

> postage fees".

> Bill 602P will permit the Federal Government to charge a 5-cent

> surcharge on every e-mail delivered, by billin Internet Service

>Providers at

> source.  The consumer would then be billed in turn by the ISP.

> Washington DC lawyer Richard Stepp is working without pay to prevent

> this legislation from becoming law.  The US Postal Service is claiming

> lost revenue, due to the proliferation of E-mail, 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 person received

> about 10 pieces of E-mail per day in 1998, the cost of the typical

> individual would be an additional 50 cents a day - or over $180 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.  The whole point of the Internet is

> democracy and noninterference.   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 coast to coast.   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.

> Congressional representative, Tony Schnell ® has even suggested a 42.00

> per month surcharge on all Internet service" above and beyond the

> governments proposed E-mail charges.  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 who's time has

> come" (March 6th, 1999 Editorial).

> Do not sit by and watch your freedom erode away!

> Send this E-mail to EVERYONE on your list, and tell all your friends

> and relatives to write their congressional representative 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 do not want.

> PLEASE FORWARD

[INFERNO2000 0]

April Fools!

 

I remember reading this a couple years ago

 

actually, that's from Canada(you can tell from the codenumber of the bill), renamed for the USA. They tried to pass it

 

I believe it failed

[Four and Twenty 0]

Yeah don't beleive that sh1t would ever fly but thought someone might be interested.

[pimpin_228 0]

Is that real lor nor i am confused

[Brian Frank 0]

You almost scared me there. I dont do a lot of e-mail, but think about some guy who's kids do tons of e-mail...one more way for the government to try to take away our hard earned $$$.

Im really glad that never passed.

[Four and Twenty 0]

i don't know if it is real or not all i know is that it is bullshit

 

if u guys think that i intended that as an april fools thing or something i didn't i got it in the email and i didn't even realize it was april fools until inferno mentioned it.

[INFERNO2000 0]

It is real, but it was tried in Canada.

 

it didn't pass.

 

the US hasn't tried it, and would be not pass anyway(anyone who passed it would not get voted into office again).

 

besides, the US government doesn't control email directly...

they'd have to charge the ISPs..

who would charge us

who would find other sources.

 

 

it won't happen while I'm alive, I'm sure.

[HarU 0]

Think of it this way....how am i going to get billed for my hotmail account if its under the name "joe shmoe" who lives in antarctica??

 

see my point.

 

Not even microsoft could bill this guy....

[EddiE314 0]

for a second you hd me, 'til i thought of the possibilities of getting around it, then i calmed down.