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This is a fake, which originated in Canada.  "Bill 602P" is the naming
convention of Canada's Parliament, in the U.S. it would begin with the
letter H or S depending on whether it originated in the House or the
Senate.

See http://host20.bluehill.com/snopes/spoons/faxlore/internet.htm for
more info (also http://www.snopes.com/spoons/faxlore/internet.htm)


In article <375C0552.448@phnx.uswest.net>, dave wrote:
>Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 21:29:34 -0700
>From: "audie emery"
>To:
>----- Original Message -----
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>Subject [Fwd: Senate Bill? 602P?? E-MAIL FEES??]]
>Cc:
>Reply-To: chick@aztec.asu.edu
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>Subject: E-mail fees
>Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay online
>and continue using email:     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 your use of the
>Internet.  Under proposed legislation the U.S. Postal Service will
>be attempting to bilk email users out of "alternate postagefees.
>Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt. to charge a 5 cent
>surcharge on every email delivered, by billing Internet Service
>Providers at the 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.
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>The US Postal Service is claiming that lost revenue due to the
>proliferation of email 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 citizen received about
>10 pieces of email per day in 1998, the cost to the typical
>individual would be an additional 50 cents per day, or over $180
>dollars 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.  If the federal
>government is permitted to tamper with our liberties by adding a
>surcharge to email, who knows where it will end.  You are already
>paying an exorbitant price for snail mail because of bureaucratic
>efficiency.  It currently takes up to 6 days for a letter to be
>delivered from New York to Buffalo.  If the US Postal Service is
>allowed to tinker with email, it will mark the end of "free"
>Internet in the United States.  One congressman, Tony Schnell (r)
>has even suggested a "twenty to forty dollar per month surcharge on
>all Internet service" above and beyond the government's proposed
>email charges.  Note that most of the major newspapers have ignored
>the story, the only exception being the Washingtonian which called
>the idea of email surcharge "a useful concept who's time has come"
>(March 6th 1999 Editorial).  Don't sit by and watch your freedoms
>erode away!
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>Send this e-mail to EVERYONE on your list, and tell all your
>friends and relatives to write to their congressman 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 don't want.
>
>Chick's Note: Another example of Republicans screwing the rest of
>us.
>Daves Note:  You also need to raise Hell about the FCC imposing a
>$0.40/mo tax on your phone bill to wire and install Internet access
>to all the schools in the country.
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>1. The FCC does not have the Constitutional authority to impose
>taxes, only Congress can do that!
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>2. Approximately 80% of all schools in the country are already
>wired and connected.
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>3. It's another claim that VPres Gore wants to make as to how he
>connected all the schools.
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>I know $.40 isn't very much to get upset about, but if you had a
>business that could cheat people who don't even do business with you,
>$.40 X every telephone X 12 months, what would your bottom line look
>like?
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>If I could do that, I'd give up all my other business!
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>I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it left!
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