Subject: [Fwd: FVWM: [Fwd: FW: Phone Company Attempt to add per minute charges]]

From: John Culleton <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:15:54 -0500

Richard A Lee wrote:
> 
> John Culleton <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > Subject:    FW: Phone Company Attempt to add per minute charges
> > >
> > >     Here's some information about the phone company's wanting to
> > > charge
(snip)
> > > Please forward this email to all your friends on the internet
> > > so all our voices may be heard!
> 
> Sigh.  This crap has more lives than a cat!  A year ago, it appeared,
> with a deadline date in Feb 1998.  The FCC put up a note on their web
> site debunking it.  That note is still there.  They have another "Fact
> Sheet" page, dated December 1998, categorically and in detail debunking
> it again.  Please see
>   <http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Factsheets/nominute.html>
>   <http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Factsheets/ispfact.html>
> for yourself.  And _please_ do what you can to eradicate this idiocy!

I apologize for forwarding the crap. I will inform the person who
forwaded it to me.
-- 
John R. Culleton, Jr.  [email-masked]
Sykesville, MD 21784 U. S. A.
(410) 795-1159
 Please visit: http://www.carr.lib.md.us/~john/index.htm

Subject: Re: FVWM: [Fwd: FW: Phone Company Attempt to add per minute charges]
From: Richard A Lee <[email-masked]>
To: John Culleton <[email-masked]>
Cc: FVWM List <[email-masked]>, Gaeilge-b list <[email-masked]>, Hoflin List <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: 28 Jan 1999 11:52:10 -0500

John Culleton <[email-masked]> writes:

[snip]

> > Subject:	FW: Phone Company Attempt to add per minute charges
> > 
> > 	Here's some information about the phone company's wanting to
> > charge
> > for our (your) using the internet.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 
> > Subject:	Phone Company Attempt to add per minute charges
> > 
> > PHONE COMPANIES FILE TO CHARGE PER MINUTE FOR
> > INTERNET SERVICE.
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Your local telephone company has filed a proposal
> > with the FCC to impose per minute charges for your
> > internet service. (This cost will of course be transferred
> > to the customers/you.) They contend that your usage has
> > or will hinder the operation of the telephone network.
> > 
> > Internet usage will diminish if users were required to pay
> > additional per minute charges. The FCC has created an email
> > box for your comments, responses must be received by
> > February 13, 1999.  Send your comments to [email-masked]
> > and tell them what you think.
> > 
> > Every phone company is in on this one, and they are trying to
> > sneak it in just under the wire for litigation. Let everyone
> > you know here this one. Get the e-mail address to everyone
> > you can think of.
> > 
> > [email-masked]
> > 
> > Please forward this email to all your friends on the internet
> > so all our voices may be heard!

Sigh.  This crap has more lives than a cat!  A year ago, it appeared,
with a deadline date in Feb 1998.  The FCC put up a note on their web
site debunking it.  That note is still there.  They have another "Fact
Sheet" page, dated December 1998, categorically and in detail debunking
it again.  Please see
  <http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Factsheets/nominute.html>
  <http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Factsheets/ispfact.html>
for yourself.  And _please_ do what you can to eradicate this idiocy!