this is just a hoax. guess my over-enthusiasm got the best of me.
sorry for the spam. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Birchmeier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 2:24 PM To: peers; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Detroit School of Techno Subject: The Most Important Email EVER (the man is casting his shadow) ...don't let the system oppress you. ...this goes against everything the internet was designed for. ...another attempt by our government to take advantage of the innovators. -----Original Message----- From: Stern. Mike Stern. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Most Important Email EVER Hi folks. I apologize for clogging your email boxes but this email concerns everyone and anyone who has an email box. Please read below to the email kindly sent out to me by FV Alumni Alex Wright with regard to how your congressmen are about to vote on a bill which would effectively destroy email as we now know it. Take a minute of your time to read this and please don't RESPOND TO ALL if you have half a brain in your head. Thanks. Mike Stern ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 Subject: Re: Expensive e-mails > > CNN has reported that within the next two weeks Congress is going to > vote on allowing > telephone companies to CHARGE A TOLL FEE for Internet access. > > Translation: Every time we send a long distance e-mail we will receive a > long distance charge. This > will get costly. Please visit the following web site and file a complaint to > your Congress person. We > can't allow this to pass! The following address will allow you to send an > e-mail on this subject DIRECTLY to your > Congress person. > > http://www.house.gov/writerep > > Pass this on to your friends. It is urgent! > > I hope all of you will pass this on to all your friends and family. We > should ALL have an interest in > this one. > > WAIT, THERE'S MORE! IN ADDITION, 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 US > 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 the source. The consumer would then be billed in turn by the > ISP. > > Washington DC lawyer Richard Stepp is working without pay to prevent this > legislation from > becoming law. The US Postal Service is claiming that lost revenue due to the > proliferation of > e-mail 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 US 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 inefficiency. It currently takes up to 6 days for a letter > to be delivered from New York to Buffalo. If the > US 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 freedoms erode away! Send this e-mail to > EVERYONE on your list, > and tell all your friends and relatives to write to their Congressperson 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. > > PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO USES EMAIL > > REMEMBER THESE ARE TWO SEPARATE ISSUES THAT AFFECT ALL OF US ONLINE. > > LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD.. > alexander wright 518 n. state st. ann arbor mi 48104 734 327 4065 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
