this is unacceptable

[deadshot]

i just found this on another site, what will our gooberment think of next




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Check this out, this is for everyone to read, doubt it will fly, but unless we respond, it could:

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!

We all know how nice and easy it is to send messages. Surely hope this bill is killed.

Many "friends" will walk in and out of your life but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. Know the difference between a "friend" and a friend......

[mr-pirk]

Dead Shot I first heard about this 4 years ago. I think it is one of those internet rumors. I am not sure. I would do a search on Snopes.com and see what shows up.

Thanks
Mr-Pirk

[Vapodog]

not everything we read on the internet is true.....this has a bad smell to it's truthfulness.

[Ezzy333]

Another Internet story! When things are too good to be true they usually aren't and vice versa. Think about it and it doesn't make sense and yes it has been going around for years.

Ezzy

[trapper T]

Deadshot, don't worry it's false...the giveaway is the bill number. Any bill either House or Senate will have either HB or SB(respectively) in front of the number. This is an internet hoax.

And I went on step further in research, there is no Tony Schnell in either the House or the Senate.

[PAHUNTER21]

On a technical stand-point, it could not and would not ever happen. Too many different interoperating technologies. The government would never have the capability to keep track of such a large volumn of emails. Plain and simple...... HOAX.

Even if it were true, it wouldn't fly. There would be a work-around the moment it was implemented. If not months / years in advance. As a matter of fact, i can think of at least 5 ways to get around it today.

[Briman]

Here's my favorite chain letter: (edited to keep it PG rated)





Hello, my name is Lewis and I suffer from the guilt of not forwarding 50
billion f****** chain letters sent to me by people who actually believe
that if you send them on, a poor 6-year-old girl in Arkansaswith a breast
on her forehead will be able to raise enough money to have it removed
before her redneck parents sell her to a traveling freak show.

Do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give you, and
everyone to whom you send "his" email, $1000?

How f****** stupid are we?

"Ooooh, looky here! If I scroll down this page and make a wish, I'll get
laid by a model I just happen to run into the next day!"

What a bunch of bulls***.

Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my house and
sodomize me in my sleep for not continuing a chain letter that was started
by Peter in 5 AD and brought to this country by midget pilgrims on
the Mayflower.

F*** 'em.

If you're going to forward something, at least send me something mildly
amusing, like porn! I've seen all the "send this to 10 of your closest friends, and
this poor, wretched excuse for a human being will somehow receive a nickel
from some omniscient being" forwards about 90 times.

I don't f****** care.

Show a little intelligence and think about what you're actually
contributing to by sending out these forwards. Chances are, it's our
own unpopularity.

The point being? If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave
you shagless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it. If it's
funny, or porn, send it on.

Don't piss people off by making them feel guilty about a leper in Botswana
with no teeth who has been tied to the ass of a dead elephant for 27 years
and whose only salvation is the 5 cents per letter he'll receive if you
forward this email.

Now forward this to everyone you know.

Otherwise, tomorrow morning your underwear will turn carnivorous and
will consume your genitals.

Have a nice day.

P.S. Send me 15 bucks or b*** me twice.

[kevin1]

Considering that I routinely get nearly 200 pieces of spam at work every day , and I'm sure that isn't unusual , I don't think corporate America would stand still and let crap legislation like this go through . The cost to them alone would be staggering . When you also figure in tens of millions of unhappy consumers it would probably crash the internet , and that would be disastrous in view of how many things are online now .

[Popere]

It will never fly.

[Aught Six]

There is indeed merit to this story. I don't think Congress is consideration an email tax at the moment, but some lawmakers tossed the idea around briefly in the past few years.

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."

Only socialists try to fight market forces. If we, as a nation, don't want to use the postal system, then they need to adapt and offer alternative services, or streamline in a big way. No one would care if Microsoft began losing millions upon million in revenues. Why should we care any more about the Post Office? Personally, I'd rather see a massive government beauracracy take a dive then a successful company started by a young, pimply entrepeneur.