No more free E-mail! PLEASE READ
06-15-2002, 07:58 AM
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No more free E-mail! PLEASE READ
Postage will go up the end of June 2002 from 34 cents to 37 cents. It will be from 9% to 12% rate increase.
But this isn't all. 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!
But this isn't all. 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!
06-15-2002, 08:34 AM
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Re: No more free E-mail! PLEASE READ
You stupid newbie jerk. Stop wasting space on Jambo's server with this crap.
Read this link. If you don't believe the Washington Post, then Read this one. It took google 0.07 seconds to tell me that my COMMON SENSE assumptions were right. This is a long running internet HOAX. This has nothing to do with Maxima's in the first place and just shows how gullible you are.
I bet this thread gets locked or deleted within the hour.
p.s I have a slightly used triple gold muffler bearing for sale. First $4545 takes it.
Read this link. If you don't believe the Washington Post, then Read this one. It took google 0.07 seconds to tell me that my COMMON SENSE assumptions were right. This is a long running internet HOAX. This has nothing to do with Maxima's in the first place and just shows how gullible you are.
I bet this thread gets locked or deleted within the hour.
p.s I have a slightly used triple gold muffler bearing for sale. First $4545 takes it.
06-15-2002, 09:17 AM
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What someone NEEDS to do (Where's Matt when we need him???) is lock this thread and 
whoever had the audacity to put this on here...
I swear!!! I know I was a newbie once, but I don't think I was a STUPID newbie!
whoever had the audacity to put this on here...I swear!!! I know I was a newbie once, but I don't think I was a STUPID newbie!
06-15-2002, 10:20 AM
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HEHEHE
NO politician EVER works for free! We the people pay every politician. I've been using the internet since 1994, and that email was around then!
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