Hoaxbuster

people who start these hoax emails need to get a life :roll:
 
There's also About.com and Snopes that has Urban Legends information.
  • http://www.snopes.com
  • http://urbanlegends.about.com
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VamPyroX said:
There's also About.com and Snopes that has Urban Legends information.
  • http://www.snopes.com
  • http://urbanlegends.about.com
:thumb:
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I could not find if there is hoax ???

This was sent to me. I think it may be crediable because Bill Gates
made a similar proposistion last week.
>
>Speedy
>
>Guess the warnings were true. Federal Bill 602P charges 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 an alarming
>trend in the Government of the United States attempting to quietly push
>through legislation that will affect our use of the Internet.
>
>Under proposed legislation, the US Postal Service will be attempting
>to bill 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 be 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 $230,000,000 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
>1998, the cost of the typical individual would be an additional 50
>cents a day -- or 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 noninterference. 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 Postal Service is
>allowed to tinker with E-mail, it will mark the end of the "free"
>Internet in
>the United States.
>
>Congressional representative, Tony Schnell (R) 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). 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.
>
 
Ugh, my friend and I were debate about this issue.

This is not a hoax. The federal government will try to pass legislature to charge 5 cents for each e-mail sent/received because the US Postal Service ('snail mail') is losing so much money. See, no one uses regular mail anymore now that we have e-mail and stamps are 37 cents each.

They are losing about 30 million per year and the government is looking for a way to stop the losses. There was an article in the Wall Street Journal recently about this too. :|
 
Teekie said:
people who start these hoax emails need to get a life :roll:
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Yeah, Or else we will just dump them in the sewer!...
 
Sabrina said:
I could not find if there is hoax ???

This was sent to me. I think it may be crediable because Bill Gates
made a similar proposistion last week.
>
>Speedy
>
>Guess the warnings were true. Federal Bill 602P charges 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 an alarming
>trend in the Government of the United States attempting to quietly push
>through legislation that will affect our use of the Internet.
>
>Under proposed legislation, the US Postal Service will be attempting
>to bill 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 be 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 $230,000,000 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
>1998, the cost of the typical individual would be an additional 50
>cents a day -- or 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 noninterference. 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 Postal Service is
>allowed to tinker with E-mail, it will mark the end of the "free"
>Internet in
>the United States.
>
>Congressional representative, Tony Schnell (R) 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). 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.
>
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Well, you received this in your email... one big sign that it's a hoax.
 
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