I just received this notice from a colleague and felt you all should know
this.  If you are not in the USA, please feel free to skip this message,
although Canadians may want to check and see if something similar will soon
apply to them!

Your local telephone company has filed a proposal
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>> with the FCC to impose per minute charges for your internet service. They
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>> contend that your usage has or will hinder the operation of the telephone
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>> network.
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>> It is my belief that internet usage will diminish if users were required to
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>> pay additional per minute charges.
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>> The FCC has created an e-mail box for your comments. Responses MUST be
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>> received by February 13, 1997. Send your comments to:
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>>  * [log in to unmask] *
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>> and tell them what you think of this idea.
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>> Every phone company is in on this one, and they are trying to sneak it in
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>> just under the wire for litigation. Let everyone you know where we stand on
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>> this one. Get the e-mail address to everyone you can think of.... Please
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>> forward this to all your friends on your Address Book so that all of our
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>> voices will be heard.
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly
disguised as impossible situations."
Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Ferndale, WA USA) [log in to unmask]
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