FCC 'chain letter' -- please stop

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1 total messages Started by Chuq Von Rospach Tue, 09 Jan 1990 23:41

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Author: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 23:41

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Recently a message announcing that the FCC is considering a surcharge on
modem users has been showing up on USENET in various groups. Research has
shown that there is no basis for this letter -- it seems to be an accidental
re-release of a 2 year old message. The FCC is not considering any surcharge
of any kind, and they are currently getting about 200 letters a day on the
subject (that they would like to see stop coming). The Talk Show host
mentioned in the letter (Jim Eason of KGO) has been pestered by a lot of
calls (including the FCC) wondering what was going on, and hasn't been
involved in the issue in two years.

Please STOP posting or distributing this message. If you have a copy,
destroy it. It is obsolete and causing problems on networks and BBSes
nationwide. There is no proposal on the docket and none being considered. We
need to wipe this silly thing out before things get further out of hand.

chuq

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