VOTE NO ON Bill 602P!!!!
I guess the warnings were true.
Federal Bill 602P supports 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 billing
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. Our congressional
representative, Tony Schnell (R) has
even suggested a "$20-$40 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 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.

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Larry

Elliott Design
McLemoresville, Tn.

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Brian Stoddard
Expressions Signs
A few puddles east of Seattle

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Bill 602P does not exist and no one is planning to charge people for sending emails as far as we know. Please ignore this HOAX message if you receive it and do not pass it on.

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Cher.

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“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” (Al Gore, CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer,” March 9, 1999)
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