From *********@***.com Tue Feb 29 16:43:27 2000 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 19:09:49 EST From: *********@***.com To: Larry Gilbert <*****@****.com> Subject: Fwd: FW: e-mail surcharges Hi, Larry, Anything on this? [ Part 2: "Included Message" ] Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 09:58:17 -0800 (PST) From: Karen Morgan <*********@*****.com> To: Stacy Morgan <*********@***.com>, Marge Rex <*********@***.com>, Jim Valentino <*********@***.com>, Jessica McIlvaine <******@************.net> Subject: Fwd: FW: e-mail surcharges Note: forwarded message attached. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com [ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ] X-Apparently-To: *********@*****.com via web2001.mail.yahoo.com Return-Path: <**************@****.com> X-Track2: 2 X-Track: 1-1: 40 Received: from relay2.smtp.psi.net (38.8.188.2) by mta127.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Jan 2000 17:00:48 -0000 Received: from [38.149.209.68] (helo=expa02.kmhp) by relay2.smtp.psi.net with esmtp (Exim 1.90 #1) id 129A4x-0006yN-00; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:00:03 -0500 Received: by EXPA02 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:58:31 -0500 Message-ID: <**************************************@******> From: "Morgan, Stephen" <**************@****.com> To: "Anthony McCurdy (E-mail)" <***********@********.att.net (Anthony McCurdy)>, "Charles McIlvaine (E-mail)" <**********@****.com (Charles McIlvaine)>, "Christian DeJohn (E-mail)" <**********@***.com (Christian DeJohn)>, "Chuck Yuravage (E-mail)" <*********@***.com (Chuck Yuravage)>, "Daniel K. Muckel III (E-mail)" <**********@***.com>, "Douglass Hocker (E-mail)" <*******@***.com (Douglass Hocker)>, "Ed Kellogg (E-mail)" <**************@**********.com (Ed Kellogg)>, "Frank Boylan (E-mail)" <*******@*********.net (Frank Boylan)>, "George Anderson III (E-mail)" <*********@********.com>, "George Clayton Ames (E-mail)" <*******@***.com (George Clayton Ames)>, "James F. Reynolds III (E-mail)" <*******@***.com>, "Jeff Wood (E-mail)" <*********@***.com (Jeff Wood)>, "Jim Kernaghan (E-mail)" <*************@*****.com (Jim Kernaghan)>, "Joe Seymour (E-mail)" <********@*******.net (Joe Seymour)>, "John W. Kolker (E-mail)" <********@***.com>, "Jonathan Novaco (E-mail)" <*******@******.com>, "Karen Marie Morgan-Peters (E-mail)" <*********@*****.com>, "Ken Printzenhoff (E-mail)" <********@***.net>, "Larry Swesey (E-mail)" <********@***.com (Larry Swesey)>, "Lisa Reva (E-mail)" <*********@***.com>, "Logan Fenstermacher (E-mail)" <*******@************.net (Logan Fenstermacher)>, "Pam Cook (E-mail)" <********@***.com>, "Peter Cachion (E-mail)" <***@*********.net (Peter Cachion)>, "Schuyler Anderson (E-mail)" <*******@*******.com (Schuyler Anderson)>, "Sheamus Bonner (E-mail)" <********@********.edu (Sheamus Bonner)>, "Stephen T. Morgan (E-mail)" <******@***.com>, "Stephen T. Morgan (E-mail 2)" <**********@***.com>, "Morgan, Stephen" <**************@****.com>, "Steve Morgan (E-mail)" <******@***.com (Steve Morgan)>, "Thomas Farley II (E-mail)" <********@*****.com>, "Tommy Leonard (E-mail)" <********@***.com (Tommy Leonard)>, "William Roper (E-mail)" <*******@*****.com (William Roper)> Subject: FW: e-mail surcharges Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:58:15 -0500 Return-Receipt-To: "Morgan, Stephen" <**************@****.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Length: 4572 I don't know if this is for real or just more internet garbage. Hard to tell anymore. Doesn't hurt to write your congressman though. Stephen T. Morgan Statutory Reporting ext. 8506 / (215) ***-**** -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Sudell [ **************@************.net <**************@************.net> ] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 6:39 PM To: Bill Sudell Subject: Fw: e-mail surcharges I thought this was important. ----- Original Message ----- From: <**********@***.com> To: <********@***.com>; <*********@***.com>; <*******@***.com>; <*****@***.com>; <**********@***.com>; <******@***.com>; <***********@***.com>; <*********@*****.com>; <*******@********.com>; <********@***.com>; <*********@***.com> Sent: January 13, 2000 10:13 AM Subject: e-mail surcharges > Subject: 5 cents per e-mail-Senate Bill 602p > > 5 cents per e-mail > Senate Bill 602p is in congress now to start charging up to 5 cents per > e-mail. Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay online and > continue using e-mail: > > FORWARDED MEMO - ACTION NEEDED TODAY! > CNN reported that within the next two weeks Congress will 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 > > I suggest you pass this on to your friends. It is urgent! > We should ALL have an interest in this one. > > WAIT, THERE'S MORE! IN ADDITION, > The last few months have revealed an alarming trend.... The Government is > 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 e-mail costing nearly $230,000,000 in revenue > per year. > (Oh, isn't that too bad?) 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 > inefficiency. 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 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 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. > > PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO USES EMAIL REMEMBER THESE ARE TWO > SEPARATE ISSUES THAT EFFECT ALL OF US ONLINE LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD. > > NOW, NOT AFTER. > > Kate Turner > Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger, > Stepp and Gorman > Attorneys at Law 216 Concorde Street, > Vienna, Va >