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I just pulled out my 1999 edition of the Vienna phone book and guess what,
there is no:
Richard Stepp, Berger,
Stepp and Gorman Attorneys at Law 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, V
There is also no Concorde Street in Vienna.
In a message dated 7/7/99 1:49:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, animal@xxxxxxxxx
writes:
<< Subj: GEN Proposed Legislation
Date: 7/7/99 1:49:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: animal@xxxxxxxxx (Animal)
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To: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Realtraders), metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Metastock User Group)
Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay on-line 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 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
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.
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!
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.
Kate Turner Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger,
Stepp and Gorman Attorneys at Law 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, V
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<DIV>Please read the following carefully if you intend
to stay on-line and continue using email:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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 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
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.
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!
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. </DIV><DIV>
Kate Turner Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger,
Stepp and Gorman Attorneys at Law 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, V</DIV><DIV>
</DIV></DIV>
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