On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, phil osborn wrote:
> I just received this from Brian Hanish: thought it ought to be passed on.
> Don't know if it's real yet. Brian is usually pretty reliable.
>
> >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.
If they pass this law, then people work around it, then they pass another law saying you have to send email in an "open", "taxable" format the people will be demonstrating in the streets.
The genie is out of the bottle and you can't put it back...
Robert