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----- Original Message ----- From: Judith Ramos- Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:04 AM Ramos (E-mail); Ana Salmon (E-mail); Bel Fahrenfeld (E-mail); Esther Franco (E-mail); Gerardo (E-mail); Judith Castro de Ramos (E-mail); Pamela Aragon (E-mail); Herrera- (E-mail); Rito Arias (E-mail); Romy Ramos (E-mail); Romy Ramos (E-mail 2); Sheila Franco (E-mail) Subject: Please read, very important for Internet-Email users Our brave new-world gov't can't keep its hands off anything. Federal BILL 602p Guess the warnings were true. Federal Bill 602P 5-cents per E-mail sent. It figures! No more free E-mail! We knew this was coming!! Bill 602P will permit the Federal Government to charge a 5-cent charge on every delivered E-mail. Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay online and continue using E-mail. 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 our use of the Internet. Under proposed legislation, the US Postal Service will be attempting to bill E-mail users out of "alternative postage fees". Bill 602P will permit the Federal Government to charge a 5-cent surcharge on every e-mail delivered, by billing Internet Service Providers at source. The consumer would then be billed in turn by the ISP. Washington DC lawyer Stepp is working without pay to prevent this legislation from becoming law. The US Postal Service is claiming lost revenue, due to the proliferation of E-mail, 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 person received about 10 pieces of E-mail per day in 1998, the cost of the typical individual would be an additional 50 cents a day - or over $180 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 non-interference. You are already paying an exorbitant price for snail mail because of bureaucratic inefficiency. It currently takes up to 6 days for a letter to be delivered from coast to coast. If the US Postal Service is allowed to tinker with E-mail, it will mark the end of the "free" Internet in the United States. Congressional representative, Tony Schnell ® has even suggested a "$20-$40 per month surcharge on all Internet service" above and beyond the governments proposed E-mail charges. Note that most of the major newspapers have ignored the story the only exception being the Washingtonian which called the idea of E-mail surcharge "a useful concept who's time has come" (March 6th,1999 Editorial). Do not sit by and watch your freedom erode away! Send this E-mail to EVERYONE on your list, and tell all your friends and relatives to write their congressional representative and say "NO" Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

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Estimados Companeros:

Some version of this alert has been circulating for a number of years now.

My sense is that it is a hoax.

R. Duke, Ph.D.

Social Anthropologist

Hispanic Health Council

175 Main Street

Hartford, CT 06106

USA/EUA

860.527.0856

miked@...

www.hispanichealth.com

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No need to be alarmed...we will not have to pay $.05 for e-mail. Proof? go

to: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c106query.html, enter the bill number and it

will not show up, because it doesn't exist.

erica

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