Re: Re: is this fake or what?

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>Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 22:48:53 +0000 (GMT)
>From: megan <megan@tao.ca>
>To: hacktivism@tao.ca
>Subject: Re: is this fake or what?
>Reply-To: hacktivism@tao.ca
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>Okay - just a note here about hoaxes....
>
>if you get something that seems like it might be a hoax, it probably is... 
>
>you can check out the latest hoaxes at
>http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
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OH NO! Reverse propaganda!
What will they think of next???

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>
>which is provided as a service to the internet community so that we do
>not have to suffer messages like this being sent out to 500 people on a
>mailing list (as you just did)...
>
>M
>
>"If we are to vent our riotous anger let it be before they try to murder
>Mumia Abu-Jamal, not after."
>   ----------------------Michael Parenti, 1995
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>Find me at - http://www.tao.ca/~megan
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>On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, piLL wrote:
>
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>> sorry if i sound lame, but is this for real??
>> 
>> i almost dont believe it...
>> 
>> >US stamps for e-mails... Please read the following carefully if you
>> >intend to stay on-line 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
>> >noninterference.
>> >
>> >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 freedom erode away! Send this email to all
>> >Americans on your list and tell your friends and relatives to write to
>> >their congressman and say "No!" to Bill 602P.
>> >
>> >Kate Turner - Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger, Stepp and Gorman
>> >Attorneys at Law, 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, VA
>> 
>> 
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