If you believe this, there is a boy dying of cancer who wants to be in the Guiness book of world records for getting the most dollar bills in the mail. Its cheaper than a get well card, and besides, they abolished the get-well card category after Craig Shergold. So, mail your dollar to: Adam Shostack 92 Howard St Cambridge Ma, 02139 And help make someone very happy. :) Also, save a copy of this message. Any time you see something about a modem tax, post this message in response. Its a better use of your stamps. Really. | >Two years ago the FCC tried and (with your help and letters of | >protest) failed to institute regulations that would impose | >additional costs on modem users for data communications. Now, | >they are at it again. A new regulation that the FCC is quietly | >working on will directly affect you as the user of a computer and | >modem. The FCC proposes that users of modems should pay extra | >charges for use of the public telephone network which carry their | >data. In addition, computer network services such as CompuServ, | >Tymnet, & Telenet would also be charged as much as $6.00 per hour | >per user for use of the public telephone network. These charges | >would very likely be passed on to the subscribers. The money is | >to be collected and given to the telephone company in an effort | >to raise funds lost to deregulation. Jim Eason of KGO newstalk | >radio (San Francisco, CA) commented on the proposal during his | >afternoon radio program during which, he said he learned of the | >new regulation in an article in the New York Times. Jim took the | >time to gather addresses which are given below. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume