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There is no law firm in Virginia by the name of Berger,
Stepp and Gorman.
ritchie wrote:
>
> For whatever it is worth
>
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> From: (BCXT38A) MARTIN HEIMS
> Subject: From the Judge
> Date: 09/26
> Time: 10:49 PM
>
> 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
> bill
> 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 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 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 whose time has come" (March 6th 1999
> Editorial) Don't sit by and watch your freedom erode away!
> Send this email to all Americans on your list and tell your friends
> and
> relatives to write to their congressman and say "No!" to Bill 602P.
>
> Kate Turner Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger, Stepp and Gorman
> Attorneys at Law
> 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, VA
>
> URGENT!!!! Pass this along to all your email buddies -
>
> <Internet Distribution List>
> TO: sdheims@xxxxxxxxx
>
> <Distribution List>
> (BCXT38C), name unlisted
> cc:(BCXT38A), MARTIN HEIMS
>
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