At 02:15 PM 12/5/01 +0100, you wrote:
>To everybody. I got this e-mail below.
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>Do I need to take notice, or is it just one of those...?
>I cannot judge. I have "cleaned" the mail from html-tags etc.
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>Klas..
Klas - acording to this 602P is a hoax
Jim
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F-Secure Hoax Information Pages: Bill 602P hoax
... I guess the warnings were true. Federal Bill 602P wants us
to pay 5-cents per E-mail
Sent. It figures! No more free E-mail! We knew this was coming!!
Bill 602P ...
http://www.europe.f-secure.com/hoaxes/bill602p.shtml
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>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 a=
n
>alarming trend in the Government of the United States attempting to quietl=
y
>push through legislation that will affect our use of the Internet.
>Under proposed legislation, the US Postal Service will be attempting to bi=
ll
>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 b=
e
>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 lost
>revenue, due to the proliferation of E-mail, is costing nearly $230,000,00=
0
>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 199=
8,
>the cost of the typical individual would be an additional 50 cents a day o=
r
>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 Post=
al
>Service is allowed to tinker with E-mail, it will mark the end of the "fre=
e"
>Internet in the United States.
>Congressional representative, Tony Schnell =AE 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).
>=20=20
>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" to Bill
602P.
>It will only take a few moments of your time and could very well be
>instrumental in killing a bill we do not want.
>PLEASE FORWARD!
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