Re: E-Mail Postage

1. There is no bill 602P.
2. Who's Congressman Schnell?

Isn't Schnell something like a yiddish slang word for sucker or was it 'rotten
scoundrel'?

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/pending/pending.htm 
http://www.usps.gov/news/email.htm
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/pending/email.htm
http://www.washingtonian.com/about/emailhoax.html

Note that in the second URL Mr. Schnell is suddenly a Canadian MP.

3. Anybody wanna buy some prime realestate over in Brooklyn. I'm considering
selling an 'over the water property' that would generate a lot of traffic for
the purchasers business... :)

I've been hearing this rumor in one form or another since I got on the net in
the late 80's.

>Jeanne Ross
| Hello all!
>|
>| I'm not sure if this is exactly the right place to ask about this or not

>but
>| I figured it wouldn't hurt. Does anyone know the reality behind the bottom

>| article. I have no idea if this is true or not but I think it would
>| undoubtedly cause a lot of people to become very unhappy across the world

>if
>| it is true. If anyone knows if this is happening please let me know. I am

>| curious about it.
>|
>| Thanks in Advance,
>| Joe Keilholz
>| Web Developer
>| Pace Communications
>| (336) 383-5443
>|
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>|
>| We Knew this was coming!! Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt.
>| to charge a 5 cent charge on every delivered email.
>| 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 your use of the
>| Internet. Under proposed legislation the US Postal Service will be
>| attempting to bill E-mail users out of "alternate postage fees."
>| Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt. 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 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 is costing nearly $230,000,000 in revenue per year.
>| You may have seen their recent ad campaign "There is nothing
>| like a letter." Since the average 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 & non-interference.

>| If the federal government is permitted to tamper with end.  You are
>already
>| paying an exorbitant price for snail mail becauseof bureaucratic
>efficiency.
>|
>| 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 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

>| 602-P.
>| It will only take a few moments of your time, and could very well be
>| instrumental in killing a bill we don't want.
>|
>
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