Re: GEN: Email surcharge--Hoax or not?

["Brig C. McCoy" <brigc@WICHITA.LIB.KS.US>]

At 09:06 AM 4/27/00 -0500, Sharon Arndt wrote:
 >This morning I received an email about a Congressional Bill that would put =
 >a surcharge on all email messages.  It was asking people to send this =
 >message to everyone you know and to write to your congressmen.  I am =
 >wondering if this is a hoax.
As you suspected, it's bogus. Snopes.com has the details:
<http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/pending/internet.htm>

...brig
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