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Re: [BKARTS] NO MORE FREE E-MAIL
Someone's idea of a joke, and a bad joke at that. "P" numbers
used to stand for proposals by citizens made through the
speaker of the House. This has been discontinued, I think about
1996 or 1997. This was so citizen proposals could be seen on
Thomas.
MaiKätzchen
--- angela harkavy <angelaoharkavy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> My friend at the Library of Congress says that:
>
> ...as to this message, WHAT is Federal Bill 602P???
>
> That is not the numbering system of the U.S. Congress. What
> is it???
>
> Sue Fletcher
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Edward Stansell<mailto:CraftBook@xxxxxxx>
> To:
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:01 AM
> Subject: NO MORE FREE E-MAIL
>
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> For those of us who send e-mail regularly. I thought
> perhaps this should get
> some publicity.
>
> Subject: Federal Bill 602P-Mail Charge
>
> Guess the warnings were true. ! Federal Bill 602P charges
> 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.
>
> 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 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
>
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