Re: E-Mail Postage

Hi Joe

I guess you have not looked up bills before. You would know that bills 
start with H.R. or S. (for House and Senate). 602P is not a good number.
So, no this is not a bill in the US. But there is a bill called H.R. 1910. 
It is the bill called E-MAIL User Protection Act (Introduced in the House).
To prohibit abuses in the use of unsolicited bulk electronic mail. This is a 
bill you may want
look into. You can check bills yourself by going to www.senate.gov or 
www.house.gov and search the bills. The one at www.house.gov will search
both House and Senate for bills.

Dick


In a message dated 2/3/00 5:54:31 AM, Joe.Keilholz(at)paceco.com writes:

>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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