This e-mail came into me today and it has concerned me very much. If this really happens it will directly effect all of us. Let's make sure that it dosen't happen anyway. Let the FCC know how you feel. I am. A concerned Family Genealogist who relies on Internet e-mail, Terry G. Peden Dalton, GA http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/1088/page5.html Paternal: PEDEN/STINNETT/RIDLEY/GRAY/COX/BINGHAM/BOHANNON/MAYES/BOYD/BARNETT/ KILLIAN/CHASE/BALL/POWELL/WIDDOWS/CARDWELL/MONTEITH/BELL/GILES/ JOHNSON/JUSTUS/THOMASON/SHOTWELL/OGLE/MARTIN/WHITE/FEAGANS/LONG/ DEBORD/HUDSPETH/McDILL/LESLIE/MILLS/HAMILTON/ Maternal: BROWN/COLLINS/WESTMORELAND/JOHNSON/PARKER/GOSSAGE/CALLAHAN/ WALLACE/JACKSON/TUCKER/WHITE/HARRISON/CARRELL/HELTON/SILVEY/WEBER/ SMITH/McKINNEY/ALLISON/BELL/HARDIN/CATE-CATES/OGLESBY/WOMACK/BERRY/ BLALOCK/ -----Original Message----- From: Eugene Finley [SMTP:ecfinley@alltel.net] Sent: Friday, January 16, 1998 10:13 AM To: 'Wright, Becky'; 'Wright, Kim A.'; 'Wright, Brian'; 'Finley, Jack D.'; 'Acree, Allan'; 'Beavers, Bob'; 'Lewis, Gerry'; 'Beavers, Jerry'; 'Lewis, Brad'; 'Campbell, Bill & Gloria'; 'Bowen, Jr. Ph.D., Charles'; 'Costner, Helen'; 'Bain, Donna'; 'Down Town Music'; 'England, Emily'; 'Finley, Daniel'; 'Finley, Glenda K.'; 'Wixom, Gregg'; 'Covington Abney, Kathy'; 'Sutton, Homer'; 'Johnston, Andy'; 'Baker-Barton, Janice'; 'Cook, Jim'; 'Ellis, James'; 'Bates, Randy'; 'Tudor, John'; 'Budraitis, John V.'; 'McClure, David'; 'Robinson, Mike'; 'Pritchard, David & Annette'; 'Ettinger, Rabbi Zvi'; 'Rhyne, Dallas'; 'Joseph, Rob'; 'Freeman-Hill, Susan'; 'Smith, Steve'; 'Johnson, Tom'; 'Peden, Terry'; 'Finley, Willis T. and Rachel'; 'Wood, Anthony' Subject: FW: Fwd: important internet/email news ---------- From: Louise A. Flood[SMTP:pwrchair@ocsonline.com] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 1998 12:03 PM To: Alleman, Boyd; Batchelor, Marcia; Birdsall, Eva; Darren Williams; Derenda, Sue; Devereaux, Betty; Finley, Eugene; Mast, Marissa J.; Paries, Calvin Subject: Fw: Fwd: important internet/email news Forwarded by Louise A. Flood <pwrchair@ocsonline.com> Just a quick but important message concerning E-Mail. This is to inform you of a very important matter currently under review by the FCC. Your local telephone company has filed a proposal with the FCC to impose per minute charges for your internet service. They contend that your usage has, or will, hinder the operation of the telephone network. E-Mail, in my opinion will diminish dramatically if users were required to pay additional per minute charges. The FCC has created a E-Mail box for your comments, responses must be received by February 13, 1998. Send your comments to "isp@fcc.gov" 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 hear this one. Get E_Mail addresses to everyone you can think of. Forward this to your E_Mail friends and ask them to write to the FCC at the above address. We all must write and send to everyone we know to write also. We don't want or need extra charges for email. ___________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >from Jeff Litster: I feel that we pay the phone companies plenty, and I think this is just a ploy so that the phone companies will not have to upgrade our unfit, worn down phone lines. I also think that they feel threatened that we're not making phone calls anymore because of e-mail, which in my opinion, is a crock. Let's get out comments to the FCC so that this stupidity is stopped! Who knows too, maybe this is a break that I-Link can use since they're trying to get that $20/month voice phone plan (long distance) going on anyway... =)