Johnny: TexMom is welcome to post to our list (Fianna-L) anytime she wishes. The only way for you not to receive her postings is for you to unsubscribe from Fianna-L. If that is your wish, I will send you the directions. Laura Schmidt Fianna List Maintainer -----Original Message----- From: JOHNNY E. WHITSON <"jwhitson@dnvr.uswest.net"@dnvr.uswest.net> To: pscobb@iamerica.net <pscobb@iamerica.net> Cc: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com <EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com>; Fianna-L@rootsweb.com <Fianna-L@rootsweb.com>; GenChat-L@rootsweb.com <GenChat-L@rootsweb.com>; GEN-IRC-L@rootsweb.com <GEN-IRC-L@rootsweb.com>; GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com <GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com>; GenSwap-L@rootsweb.com <GenSwap-L@rootsweb.com>; GenTips-l@rootsweb.com <GenTips-l@rootsweb.com>; NEW-GEN-URL-L@rootsweb.com <NEW-GEN-URL-L@rootsweb.com>; RESEARCH-HOWTO-L@rootsweb.com <RESEARCH-HOWTO-L@rootsweb.com>; Roots-L@rootsweb.com <Roots-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, January 05, 1998 6:49 PM Subject: Re: Cyndi's Log is Posted >To pscobb, >WOULD YOU TAKE MY NAME OFF OF YOUR E-MAIL LIST?????????????????? >I DO NOT WANT ANY MORE. YOU ARE WASTING MY TIME DELETING THESE >MESSAGES. >Signed, JOHNNY > > >pscobb@iamerica.net wrote: >> >> >Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 01:16:36 -0800 >> >To: GFops >> >From: pscobb@mailhost.iamerica.net >> >Subject: Cyndi's Log is Posted >> > >> >On Dec. 30, Cyndi Howells ( http://www.oz.net/~cyndihow/sites.htm ) was a >> guest on #Genealogy Forum. She answered about a dozen questions which had >> been compiled from a mailing we did before hand. Then the other Channel >> quests quizzed her on other topics. >> > >> >Many have emailed asking about the log of the meeting. It is posted to our >> webpage as a link off the "Important New Flash" page of our website: >> > >> >http://cust2.iamerica.net/pscobb/ >> > >> >Cyndi has agreed to do other of this type forum with us. Hope to see you >> at a future meeting. >> > >> >Regards, >> > >> tex^mom >> >From #GenealogyForum IRC Channel on Afternet: >> server agora.afternet.org >> "Looking for YOUR Ancestors?" >> Need Simple mIRC instructions? >> Check our Webpage to Find 'em! >> http://cust2.iamerica.net/pscobb/index.htm >> email: pscobb@mailhost.iamerica.net > >

I ran across a reference that leads me to believe that Coole Abbey, Co. Cork has something to do with my Crowley origins. Does this refer to a town or parish? Where can I find Records for this area? Thanks much, Carol

Does anyone know anything about these two places which once existed in Couty Tipperary. Any info would be most appreciated....many thanks, Kate

Hi all, I am having to unsubscribe due to an overload of mail which has now blocked the system and may take a few days to sort out. I am also looking at having an operation in the next week so I might not be back for a few weeks. I will miss you all, Seeya, Michelle :} (tatyana@ozemail.com.au) BSSG. Baragwanath/Baynes/Coldstream/Curnow/Debell/Desanges/Fox/Francom/Guihot/ Helton/Jose/Maudsl*y/ Memor(e)y/Mi(t)chell/Quick/Soames/Trewhella/Tuckett. CFHS #6392; QFHS #M2705; Woolwich&DFHS #1023. "Genealogy- Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living!"

_________________________________________________________________ ****FCC Barraged With E-mail Protesting ISP Access Charges 02/14/97 ^^^^^^^^ WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1997 FEB 14 (NB) -- By Wes Thomas. A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) request for public comments on a "Notice of Proposed Rule Making on Access Charge Reform" has generated intense Internet activism and a barrage of e-mail to the FCC, Congress, and the White House. The notice raises the question: Should ISPs (Internet service providers, such as AOL and Netcom) be required to pay phone companies per-minute access charges, which will probably be passed on to the ISPs' customers? The FCC notice spawned several urban legends that quickly spread on the Internet. One, a variant of the 1987 "modem tax" proposal, warned that the FCC would require Internet users to pay per-minute taxes. Another said the FCC had trashed all e-mail messages received because they were in the wrong format. And another accused the FCC of "thwarting democracy," calling for an ad campaign and spamming. An FCC spokesperson (who requested anonymity) denied these charges, telling Newsbytes that the FCC had in fact stated that for now, ISPs should not be subject to access charges and that no e-mail messages had been "trashed" (over 165,000 e-mail messages on this topic were received by the FCC as of February 13, the cutoff date, the spokesperson stated). The confusion appears to have stemmed from the inaccessible legal and technical language on the FCC's Web site, http://www.fcc.gov . Barraged with questions and complaints, the FCC belately issued (but did not post) a more readable "ISP Fact Sheet: THE FCC, INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS AND ACCESS CHARGES" on the final day for comments, February 13. The FCC extended the deadline to February 14 several weeks ago but did not widely publicize it or correct it on the FCC Web site, so few were aware of it. According to the FCC fact sheet, which Newsbytes obtained, "Since 1983, there has been an ongoing debate about whether enhanced service providers [ISPs] should be required to pay access charges, based on the contention that these companies use local networks in the same manner as long-distance carriers. "In June 1996, four local telephone companies (Pacific Bell, Bell Atlantic, US West, and NYNEX) submitted studies to the FCC concerning the effects of Internet usage on these carriers' networks. The companies argued that the existing rate structure did not reflect the costs imposed on local telephone companies to support Internet access, and that Internet usage was causing congestion in part of the local network. In connection with these studies and other pleadings, several local phone companies have asked the FCC for authority to charge interstate access charges to ISPs." However, the FCC has tentatively disagreed with the phone companies. "The FCC's initial proposal is that ISPs should not be required to pay current access charges, but the Commission has made no final decisions," the document stated. "The Commission expressed concern about the effects that imposition of access charges could have on the competitive ISP marketplace, and also noted that the Internet would likely not have grown so rapidly in recent years if most users had been required to pay per-minute rates for Internet access." The FCC plans to issue a Report and Order on reforming the interstate access charge system by May 1997, the document added. According to the fact sheet, the FCC also issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) On Internet and Interstate Information Services, "seeking to identify what policies would best facilitate the development of the high-bandwidth data networks of the future, while preserving efficient incentives for investment and innovation in the underlying voice network." The deadline for comments is March 24; the deadline for reply comments (comments responding to the initial round of comments) is April 23. The ISP Fact Sheet will be posted February 14 on the FCC Web site http://fcc.gov or is available via the FCC fax-on-demand system at 202-418-2830, document number 6722. The text of FCC proposals concerning ISPs is document number 4824. (19970214/Reported by Newsbytes News Network http://www.newsbytes.com "The Pulse of the Information Age" Newsbytes News Network http://www.newsbytes.com 24-hour computer, telecom and online news _________________________________________________________________

The "famous" Fianna Study group for Irish Genealogy is working on a guide to Irish research. Take a look. Offer suggestions! Tell your Irish seeking friends :) http://www.geocities.com/~fiannag/ This message was placed on the following newsgroups today: alt.genealogy soc. genealogy s.g.computing s.g.britain s.g marketplace s.g.ireland s.g.methods s.g.misc Scotch-Irish Ireland-GENWEB Scotland-GENWEB Ireland-L .Anne Boyes boyes@gardener.com http://www.geocities.com/~hoseahouse/genealogy/

Good job, Kathleen. I've been trying to get up enough nerve to start a webpage. While I don't have as many names as most pages contain, I do have some good information about one of my ancestors who was in the Civil war. Good luck in the future. Will look forward to more of you online. Regards, Joanna ----------

My fledgling and *extremely* rudimentary webpage on my and my husband's ancestors made its debut w/ the New Year, and may be found at: http://members.xoom.com/CathGrrl/ I have used Brother's Keeper and GED2HTML, and the page (at this point) was mainly used to see what I could do. There are 699 individuals in the database, but there are many bare patches, except for the oldest and youngest generations. Dates, especially, are scanty right now, and I haven't entered any of my father's nieces and nephews and their kids...another hundred or so additions! There's a lot of work to do (I'm sure I don't need to tell any of you that, LOL), and I will be updating on a regular basis, as ea. new batch of info is put into BK. You might want to take a look at my surnames list and see if anything rings a bell. TIA, Kathleen King Moffett mailto:moffett1@erols.com http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1284

On 2 Jan 98 at 17:48, Anne Boyes <boyes@gardener.com> wrote: > > > All of the following links now work at rootsweb server and I will > get our Guide and Hideaway pages corrected this w/e :) > > http://www.worldgenweb.org/ireland/parishes.htm > <SNIP, SNIP> Anne, the links for Mayo haven't been working for the last couple of days.... Kathleen Kathleen King Moffett mailto:moffett1@erols.com http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1284

Enjoy! http://www.pcola.gulf.net/~llscott/peace.htm .Anne Boyes boyes@gardener.com http://www.geocities.com/~hoseahouse/genealogy/

All of the following links now work at rootsweb server and I will get our Guide and Hideaway pages corrected this w/e :) http://www.worldgenweb.org/ireland/parishes.htm http://www.worldgenweb.org/ireland/shiplist.htm http://www.worldgenweb.org/ireland/index.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~genclass/index.html .Anne Boyes boyes@gardener.com http://www.geocities.com/~hoseahouse/genealogy/

Cloudy, Thank you for your concern. Here are the REAL facts! http://kumite.com/myths/fas/fas-mtax.htm Peace, chirho Anne Boyes boyes@gardener.com http://www.geocities.com/~hoseahouse/genealogy/

Hello and Happy New Year to all! Some of you may receive two copies of this, since I'm sending to both the FIANNA-L and the list from the last class. Sorry about duplications. THIS IS THE LAST TIME I'LL SEND TO THE CLASS LIST! If you were in the class and haven't joined FIANNA-L, do so NOW!! Don't get lost in cyberspace! :( We want you to continue with us! :) :) Marthe, please count this as notification that our study group has now published our portion of the study guides! :) Some folks are really interested and are continuing to submit more (!) material :) and we expect that the guide will continue to grow and refine itself over time. :) Our Hideaway has grown, a lot! We now have over SIXTY pages (counting the form for signup for surname and the form for signup for profile, plus the thankyou pages for those forms!) We have over a megabyte of CODING, not counting music and pictures! The pages that are used to sign up for fians, and the listing of who was in a fian are not up. (I'll add a column to the ID's on the group33.html page for the fians..) And not included in the count. The only page that is duplicated is the Front Page, there is a public front page at index.html and our private front page at http://www.geocities.com/~fiannag/findex.html All of that means we have A LOT OF MATERIAL available, hopefully most of it pretty good :) There are places to sign up to be notified if a page changes. This is a free service. You do not get spam from the folks that run it, just a notice when changes are made. Please PLEASE, sign up!! Then chirho won't feel like she has to shake the list every time there's something new and good there for you! She still has a lot of good stuff in the editor waiting to be put up that has been sent by various folk, but was pushing to get the class project finished and the site moved. So there WILL be changes to pages, added pages,, etc. The signup service will let you know when that happens! The only way to know about changes to the guide, profiles, surnames, book nook, or fun pages is to sign up on them. All other changes will change the Hideaway Front Page (same changes on public front page for those strangers who wander in) Soooooooo that means five or six places to sign up, if you're REALLY interested.... and PLEASE signup on the PRIVATE Hideaway front page, rather than the public. That way we'll be able to see how many strangers ask for notices :) We will be having a fair number of strangers (folks not on FIANNA-L) wandering through since we opened the surname page and it is getting referred to by various other sites... Anyone who wants to advertise the site (by signing up for links, etc., PLEASE let me know, so we don't bombard folks out there! Maybe we could have a volunteer for "off list publicity" to coordinate that and submission to search engines, etc? The "Private pages" are NOT accessible to search engines and are NOT to be linked to... they are JUST for FIANNA-L folk :) :) As you go through and gaze at our treasures, take a look at the counters. They have been updated to reflect their count from before the move. There are lots of pages no one but chirho :( has ever looked at. She wonders whether you folks really want a current group page and logs for classes... and is not going to answer any questions (in the next class) that are answered already in the find.html pages! Speaking of which, the next class starts January 12 at VU. There is a fee of $5.00 for the class itself and a fee to register for $10. If you take other classes they are only $5.00 each and the registration fee is only once per quarter. There WILL be a class in IRC for those who want to increase their skill there :) ... and we should do an IRC-athon EARLY in the classes ! Will be putting up the IRC material next week and work toward an IRC-athon in January !! (and of course I'll try to get folks to see our public Hideaway and Guide from those pages !) And Diana Hanson's free classes are moving to Rootsweb. Will correct all the URL's that refer to IrelandGenWeb and those free classes as that all gets straightened out over the next week or two. In the meantime some of the URL's work and some don't....Brian Leaverich and Diana and some other folk are busy getting the move cleaned up, and she's still jaunting about in Ireland, of course! Apparently the need to move was known but it had been planned for after her return and things just forced it to happen now... Well, I have rambled and ranted long enough! Go, browse, enjoy and share the public stuff! And don't forget to stop by the pub (teashop) for some fun!! Again, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all, and many more to come :) peace. chirho . Anne Boyes boyes@gardener.com http://www.geocities.com/~hoseahouse/genealogy/

I noted a number of Fianna names on the roster for Diana Hanson's course. I'm glad to see you there! Do we want to start a fian for that course? Could get us a web page up and then when we have something to work on in small group we'd be ready.... ??? What think you? Should I pull Fianna names from the roster, or only include those who email me? Peace, chirho Anne Boyes boyes@gardener.com http://www.geocities.com/~hoseahouse/genealogy/

Greetings everyone, The Updates are completed on my Irish Genealogy site. Stop by sometime. http://members.aol.com/Odea97/IRELANDGENEALOGY.html Best Wishes for a Happy New Year! Catherine

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This is out of date..... the deadline for comments was Feb. 14, 1997, This is the infamous "Modem Tax" internet scare..... Relevant facts below (from the FCC website) Check it out for yourself.... ps. This is New Years not April Fool's Day hehehe -jeanne Fight Spam! Join CAUCE (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email) http://www.cauce.org/ Tell your Congresscritters how Spam mailings hurt you. Help protect genuine Internet commerce: Outlaw UCE Spamming! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 09:09:48 -0800 From: Joe & Laura Schmidt <schmidtm@3-cities.com> Subject: Telephone Company Legistlation Resent-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 08:58:35 -0800 (PST) Resent-From: FIANNA-L@rootsweb.com Hi all! I received this from a list that I subscribe to, and figured it is indeed important to send on to everyone that I know. Very scary situation coming from all the telephone companies of the nation, concerning our usage of Internet. Please read this and if you feel the same way respond to the isp@fcc.gov address. Remember the last day to respond to this matter is February 13!!!! Laura Schmidt schmidtm@3-cities.com > <<Sent by a friend: > > > I am writing you this 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. > > It is my belief that Internet usage will diminish if users were > required to pay additional per minute charges. The FCC has created an > e-mail box for your comments, responses must be received by February > 13, 1998. Send your comments to isp@fcc.gov 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 hear > this one. Get the e-mail address to everyone you can think of. THE FCC, INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS AND ACCESS CHARGES This fact sheet offers informal guidance on an issue that has generated a great deal of public interest. For more specific details about the proceedings currently before the Commission, please visit our web site (http://www.fcc.gov/isp.html) or public reference room or call our duplicating contractor for a copy of CC Docket Numbers 96-262, 94-1, 91-213 and 96-263. _________________________________________________________________ The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has requested public comment on issues relating to the charges that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and similar companies pay to local telephone companies. On December 24, 1996, the FCC opened a proceeding to reform the system of interstate access charges. Each long distance telephone call you make includes per-minute fees that your long distance carrier pays to the originating and terminating local telephone companies over whose facilities that call also travelled. Those fees, which are designed to recover the costs to local telephone companies for use of their facilities, are referred to as "access charges." As part of this proceeding, the FCC sought comment on the treatment of ISPand other "enhanced service providers" that also use local telephone companies' facilities. Since the access charge system was established in 1983, enhanced service providers have been classified as "end users" rather than "carriers" for purposes of the access charge rules, and therefore they do not pay the per-minute access charges that long-distance companies pay to local telephone companies. This issue is being considered on two different tracks. I. Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Access Charge Reform The Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) on Access Charge Reform seeks comment on proposals to restructure the entire system of access charges paid to local telephone companies. The Commission is seeking to make the access charge system more consistent with the development of local competition in the telephone industry, and with principles of economic efficiency. As part of this process, the Commission considered whether enhanced service providers, such as ISPs, should be required to pay interstate access charges. The Commission tentatively concludes that ISPs should not be subject to access charges as currently constituted. If you want to learn more about this issue you should read paragraphs 282 through 290 in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the rest of the document covers other issues). You can also access this document on the FCC's Web site, or you can obtain this section of the document by calling our fax on demand system at 202/418-2830 and requesting document numbers, 96-262, 94-1, 91-213 and 96-263. The final deadline for comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is Friday, February 14, 1997. You can submit formal comments by delivering or mailing five copies to: Federal Communications Commission, Office of the Secretary, Room 239, 1919 M Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20554. You can also send informal comments via email. If your email concerns the question of whether Internet and other enhanced service providers should pay access charges, it should be addressed to isp@fcc.gov. If your email concerns other issues in the Access Reform NPRM, it should be addressed to access@fcc.gov. II. Notice of Inquiry On Internet and Interstate Information Services In a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) launched with this same Access Reform proceeding, the FCC is seeking to identify what policies would best facilitate the development of the high-bandwidth data networks of the future, while preserving efficient incentives for investment and innovation in the underlying voice network. The NOI does not make any specific proposals, but seeks comment generally on the implications of information services such as Internet access for the telephone network. If you want to learn more about this issue you should read paragraphs 311 through 318, the NOI contained within the Access Reform document. You can also obtain this document from the FCC's Web site, or you can obtain this section of the document by calling our fax on demand system at 202/418-2830 and requesting document numbers, 96-262, 94-1, 91-213, and 96-263. The deadline for comments on the Notice of Inquiry is March 24, 1997. Reply comments, submitted in response to the initial round of comments, will be accepted through the close of business on April 23, 1997. You can submit formal comments by delivering or mailing five copies to: Federal Communications Commission, Office of the Secretary, Room 239, 1919 M Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20554. You can also send informal comments via email by addressing them to isp@fcc.gov. _________________________________________________________________ Frequently Asked Questions on Internet Services and Access Charges Q: Does the FCC regulate the rates charged by Internet Service Providers (ISPs)? A: No. ISPs are considered "enhanced service providers" under FCC rules. The FCC does not regulate the rates that enhanced service providers charge to their subscribers. ___________________________________ Q: How does the FCC regulate the rates that local telephone companies charge to ISPs? A: ISPs purchase local phone lines so that customers can call them. Under FCC rules, enhanced service providers ISPs are considered "end users" when they purchase services from local telephone companies. Thus, ISPs pay the same rates as any other business customer, and these rates are set separately in each state. By contrast, long-distance companies are considered "carriers," and they pay interstate access charges regulated by the FCC. ___________________________________ Q: How are access charges different from the rates ISPs pay now? A: Today, ISPs typically purchase "business lines" from local phone companies. Business lines usually include a flat monthly charge, and a per-minute charge for making outgoing calls. Because ISPs receive calls from their subscribers rather than making outgoing calls, ISPs generally do not pay any per-minute charges for their lines, which is one reason many ISPs do not charge per-minute rates for Internet access. Access charges, by contrast, include per-minute fees for both outgoing and incoming calls. The rate levels of interstate access charges are also in many cases higher than the flat business line rates ISPs pay today. ___________________________________ Q: Have local phone companies requested authority from the FCC to charge per-minute rates to ISPs? A: Since 1983, there has been an ongoing debate about whether enhanced service providers should be required to pay access charges, based on the contention that these companies use local networks in the same manner as long-distance carriers. In June 1996, four local telephone companies (Pacific Bell, Bell Atlantic, US West, and NYNEX) submitted studies to the FCC concerning the effects of Internet usage on these carriers' networks. The companies argued that the existing rate structure did not reflect the costs imposed on local telephone companies to support Internet access, and that Internet usage was causing congestion in part of the local network. In connection with these studies and other pleadings, several local phone companies have asked the FCC for authority to charge interstate access charges to ISPs, although they have not filed a formal petition for rulemaking. ___________________________________ Q: Is the FCC considering allowing local phone companies to impose access charges on ISPs? A: The FCC has requested public comment on whether ISPs should pay current access charges, and more generally on how Internet and interstate information services that use local telephone networks should be treated. The FCC's initial proposal is that ISPs should not be required to pay current access charges, but the Commission has made no final decisions. ___________________________________ Q: On what issues is the FCC asking for public comment? A: In the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the FCC is asking for comment on whether ISPs and other enhanced service providers should pay the access charges now paid by long-distance companies. In the Notice of Inquiry, the FCC is asking for comment on how to create incentives for companies to make the most efficient use of the telephone network for Internet and other information services, and on the impact of different rate structures for ISPs on network usage and deployment of new technologies. For more specific questions, see the Access Reform document itself. The NPRM and NOI are part of the same document, which is available on the FCC Web site at http://www.fcc.gov/isp.html. ___________________________________ Q: What is the difference between a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) and a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)? A: A NOI is the earliest step in the FCC's process and typically asks questions in an effort to gather enough information to make informed proposals on a given topic. A NPRM is a request for comment on specific proposals made by the Commission. After the FCC reviews the comments filed in response to an NPRM, the FCC can issue a Report and Order adopting new rules. ___________________________________ Q: Is the FCC worried about the effects of different pricing structures on the ISP industry, and on usage of the Internet? A: Yes. The Commission expressed concern about the effects that imposition of access charges could have on the competitive ISP marketplace, and also noted that the Internet would likely not have grown so rapidly in recent years if most users had been required to pay per-minute rates for Internet access. At the same time, local telephone companies have argued that per-minute rates would more accurately reflect the costs that ISPs impose on the network, and would provide sufficient revenues to fund network upgrades needed to more efficiently handle data traffic. ___________________________________ Q: What are the deadlines for filing comments? A: For the NPRM, which asks whether ISPs should pay current access charges, the final deadline is February 14, 1997. For the NOI, which asks for comment more generally about the implications of Internet and interstate information services, the comment deadline is March 24, 1997, and the reply deadline is April 23, 1997. Please note that both sets of deadlines have been moved back from what was originally established in the Access Reform document released in December 1996, in response to petitions for extensions of time to file comments. ___________________________________ Q: How do I file comments on this issue? A: You can submit formal comments by delivering or mailing five copies to: Federal Communications Commission, Office of the Secretary, Room 239, 1919 M Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20554. Your comments must include the docket numbers, 96-262. 94-1, 91-213, and 92-253. More information on filing formal comments is available on the FCC Web site at http://www.fcc.gov/ccb/. Because of the importance of these issues to the Internet community, the FCC has also established an email box for informal comments at isp@fcc.gov. ___________________________________ Q: Will comments filed by other parties be available for review? A: Formal comments are available for review in the FCC Reference Center in Washington DC. In addition, we will make available on the FCC Web site at http://www.fcc.gov/; any copies of formal comments we receive in electronic form. ___________________________________ Q: Is the FCC considering "surcharges" or "taxes" for use of the Internet or online services? A: No. The FCC has sought comment on whether ISPs should be treated as end users or carriers, and has proposed initially to keep the current system in place. The debate involves charges levied by local phone companies, not government taxes. ___________________________________ Q: Is this the "FCC modem tax" that has been floating around the Internet in various forms for several years? A: The "modem tax" referred to a proposal in 1987 to require enhanced service providers to pay interstate access charges, which at that time were significantly higher than they are today. The 1987 proposal was abandoned in 1988. The current Access Reform proceeding is entirely separate, and the FCC has specifically proposed not to require enhanced service providers to pay access charges. ___________________________________ Q: What is the next step in the process? A: The Commission will review the comments filed in response to the NPRM and NOI. The FCC has expressed its intention to issue a Report and Order on reforming the interstate access charge system by May 1997. As for the NOI on Internet and interstate information services, the record does not close until late April. Based on that record, the Commission will decide whether at a later date to issue an NPRM seeking comment on specific proposals. The Commission also held a public forum on Access and Bandwidth on January 23, 1997, in order to more fully address questions relating to the implications of Internet services for the telephone network. The transcript of the forum and related materials are available on the FCC Web site at http://www.fcc.gov/bandwidth/. ___________________________________ Last Updated 3/7/97

Yes of course! Laura (aka Cloudy) Schmidt -----Original Message----- From: HLA <HLA@carebear.demon.co.uk> To: FIANNA-L@rootsweb.com <FIANNA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, December 28, 1997 6:15 AM Subject: Re: FIANNA-D Digest V97 #131 >Can I add my web page to your Web ring ???? > >It has my Irish family tree on it !!! > >Regards > >hla - the Lady Endjineer !!! > > >HLA@carebear.demon.co.uk > > > > >

Hello Our new RootsWeb mailing list is up and running The List is For any one Researching The Keough Sur Name And Any of its Variants Keough , Keogh , Kehoe , Please Feel Free to post Inquerries . Folk Tales, Sayings , recipes or any other things that might enhance the value of the list . Perhaps a good Story of a Favorite Aunt or Uncle . OK, good news: our mailing list is ready to roll. Briefly you can subscribe to our list in mail mode by sending a message to KEOUGH-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains the word subscribe and nothing else. If you prefer digest mode,you should send the command instead to KEOUGH-D-request@rootsweb.com. To unsubscribe, you should send the command "unsubscribe" to KEOUGH-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or KEOUGH-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) To switch from one mode to the other, You should unsubscribe from one and then subscribe to the other. To post to both KEOUGH-L and KEOUGH-D, messages should be sent to KEOUGH-L@rootsweb.com. Messages sent there will appear both places. Well Thats How it should work So Please Subscribe to The List and Send Along Some info on Who you are Researching Thanks Bill Keough Keeper Of The Keough-list , Web Master The Rhode Ireland Web http://members.aol.com/billkeo/Keough/riirish.htm

Hi all! I received this from a list that I subscribe to, and figured it is indeed important to send on to everyone that I know. Very scary situation coming from all the telephone companies of the nation, concerning our usage of Internet. Please read this and if you feel the same way respond to the isp@fcc.gov address. Remember the last day to respond to this matter is February 13!!!! Laura Schmidt schmidtm@3-cities.com > <<Sent by a friend: > > > I am writing you this 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. > > It is my belief that Internet usage will diminish if users were > required to pay additional per minute charges. The FCC has created an > e-mail box for your comments, responses must be received by February > 13, 1998. Send your comments to isp@fcc.gov 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 hear > this one. Get the e-mail address to everyone you can think of. > >> This letter was sent too! > Sent by a friend: > > > I am writing you this 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. > > It is my belief that Internet usage will diminish if users were > required to pay additional per minute charges. The FCC has created an > e-mail box for your comments, responses must be received by February > 13, 1998. Send your comments to isp@fcc.gov 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 hear > this one. Get the e-mail address to everyone you can think of. > >