Return-path: [log in to unmask] From: [log in to unmask] Full-name: YFoon Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:23:18 EDT Subject: Fwd: Fw: Please read & Pass Along To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part2_666cebb7.248e8156_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 4 --part2_666cebb7.248e8156_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part2_666cebb7.248e8156_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> Received: from rly-zb05.mx.aol.com (rly-zb05.mail.aol.com [172.31.41.5]) by air-zb04.mail.aol.com (v59.34) with SMTP; Mon, 07 Jun 1999 22:52:36 -0400 Received: from mx0-smtp.goodnet.com (envy.goodnet.com [207.98.129.151]) by rly-zb05.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id WAA14613 for <[log in to unmask]>; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 22:52:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Goodnet (tuc-ns2-16.goodnet.com [207.98.186.81]) by mx0-smtp.goodnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA27012 for <[log in to unmask]>; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 19:52:32 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> X-Sender: [log in to unmask] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 19:32:07 -0700 To: [log in to unmask] From: Ronsi <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Fwd: Fw: Please read & Pass Along Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >From: "John Zimmermann" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "Tom Slater" <[log in to unmask]>, > "Susan Prange" <[log in to unmask]>, > "Steve Hailey" <[log in to unmask]>, "Ronnie Sitz" <[log in to unmask]>, > "Paul Mazzarella" <[log in to unmask]>, > "Mark Zimmermann" <[log in to unmask]>, "Mark Elvy" <[log in to unmask]>, > "Eugen Ardeleanu" <[log in to unmask]>, > "Don Olson" <[log in to unmask]>, "Dave Hanson" <[log in to unmask]>, > "Arnold Zimmermann" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Fw: Please read & Pass Along >Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 14:47:12 -0700 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Dale Wieck <[log in to unmask]> >To: John Zimmerman <[log in to unmask]>; Donna West <[log in to unmask]>; Don >Olson <[log in to unmask]>; Cindy Love <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 9:24 AM >Subject: Fw: Please read & Pass Along > > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Joe Long <[log in to unmask]> >> To: Stover, Smokey & Linda <[log in to unmask]>; Seeley, Dan & Norene >> <[log in to unmask]>; Newman, Nick & Debi <[log in to unmask]>; Martin, >Robert >> & Debbie <[log in to unmask]>; ladyelo <[log in to unmask]>; Kevin & Debbie >> Glidden <[log in to unmask]>; Joni Martin <[log in to unmask]>; >Jeff >> & Kristine Ries <[log in to unmask]>; Jacobsen, Judy & Knute >> <[log in to unmask]>; Hilde, Ray & Wendy <[log in to unmask]>; Dale Wieck >> <[log in to unmask]>; Compean, Johnny <[log in to unmask]>; Cluphf, >> Martha <[log in to unmask]> >> Date: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 2:29 PM >> Subject: Fw: Please read & Pass Along >> >> >> > >> >- >> >Subject: FW: Please read & Pass Along >> > >> > >> >> >> >>Subject: Fw: Sending something important for all of us >> >>Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 20:59:39 -0700 >> >>Message-ID: <007c01bea8be$85ece4e0$6a84fed0@default> >> >> >> >> Subject: Please read and pass >> Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay online >> and continue using email: 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 U.S. 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 source. The consumer would then be billed in turn by the ISP. Washington >D.C. lawyer Richard Stepp is working without pay to >> prevent this legislation from becoming law. The U.S. Postal Service is >claiming that lost revenue due to the proliferation of email 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 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 U.S. 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 efficiency. It currently takes up to 6 days for a >letter to be delivered from New York to Buffalo. If the U.S. 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 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. >> >>>>> > > >> >>>>> > Kate Turner >> >>>>> > Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger, Stepp and Gorman >> >>>>> > Attorneys at Law 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, V >> >>>>> > >> >>>>> > >> >>> >> >> >> > >> > Ronald K. H. Sitz 5232 E. 2nd St. Tucson, Arizona 85711-1311 Tel. (520) 795-6891 --part2_666cebb7.248e8156_boundary--