Re: Xmas Spirit
And if you believe this, let me tell you about some classified work I've done
inside Area 51.
"Kummert, Erik C TEC" wrote:
> Not related to pumpkins or Xmas spirit, but very important to the future of
> this or ANY other List::::: Please read; it is a little long, but it may
> have an effect on our usage of this Mallorn List:
>
> This was shown to me at work the other day-- written by Mr. Harold Mabe,
> Physical Scientist US Army Corps of Engineers, Geospatial Information
> Division, Information Requirements and Design Branch (My job as well) :
>
> [Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt. to charge a 5 cent
> charge on every delivered email.
>
> 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 your
> use of the
> Internet.
>
> Under proposed legislation the US Postal Service will be
> attempting to bilk E-mail users out of "alternate postage
> fees."
>
> Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt. 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 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 non-interference. 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 efficiency.
>
> 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 who's time has come" (March
> 6th 1999
> Editorial). Don't sit by and watch your freedoms erode
> away!
>
> Send this e-mail to EVERYONE on your list, and tell all
> your friends
> and relatives to write to their congressman 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 don't want. ]
>
> Pumpkinist.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyle Rockwell [r*@cyber-quest.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 9:17 PM
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Xmas Spirit
>
> (Done to the Bing Crosby Favorite, White Xmas)
>
> I'm, dreaming..... of an orange...Pumpkin....
> Just like the ones I used to grow.....
> Where list members are submittin,
> and the rest of us are listenin.....
> and respect, each others A.G.views.......
>
> I'm dreaming.... of a green..... squash.....
> With every Andersen 815.... I plant.....
> May your skin color be green or blue, not white......
> That would make your squashes, be right......
>
> I'm dreaming, of just growing...... something.... big...
> I really don't care if it is orange or green.....
> May your patch .... be healthy....in spite,.,.,.
> Of the seed that Steve gave you...., last night........
>
> Happy Holidays all.. I still love ya Steve.. :o) And that goes for the
> rest of you... Lets lighten up, and enjoy each others company. I think
> some nice poems about our hobby from Tony Hickman would steer us back on
> the path of pumpkingdom..... Stay tuned.......
>
> --
> ***Rocky Rockwell***
>
> http://home.cyber-quest.com/rocky.r
>
> "Woodchuck - The Other White Meat"
>
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