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<DIV><FONT size=2><STRONG>Yeah Right...</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
Animal </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Realtraders</A> ; <A
href="mailto:metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"; title=metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Metastock
User Group</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 07, 1999 1:43
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> GEN Proposed Legislation</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please read the following carefully if you intend
to stay on-line and continue using email:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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<BR>attempting to bilk email users
out of "alternate postage fees". Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt to
charge a 5 cent surcharge on every email delivered, by billing Internet
Service Providers at source. The consumer would then be billed in<BR>turn by
the ISP. Washington D.C. lawyer Richard Stepp is working without pay to
prevent this legislation from becoming law. The U.S. 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 U.S. Postal Service for a service they do not even provide.
The whole point of the Internet is democracy and non-interference. 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.<BR><BR>If the U.S. Postal Service is allowed to tinker with email, it
will mark the end of the "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!<BR><BR>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. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>Kate Turner Assistant to Richard Stepp,
Berger,<BR>Stepp and Gorman Attorneys at Law 216 Concorde Street, Vienna,
V</FONT></DIV>
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In a message dated 99-07-07 14:56:27 EDT, animal@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay on-line and
> continue using email:
Instead of asking others to read carefully, it would be much better to
research stuff before posting it.
THIS IS A HOAX!!!! an old one at that
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