harley.dixon wrote:

Another hoax......

Let's not keep this stuff going....

Specifically:

Harley

Bill 602P does not exist.
                                  '602P' is not a valid name for a
Congressional bill. Bills in the House of
                                  Representative are prefaced with
'H.R.'. Bills in the Senate are prefaced
                                  with 'S.'
                                  Congressman Tony Schnell does not
exist.
                                  Lawyer Richard Stepp does not exist.
                                  The law firm of 'Berger, Stepp and
Gorman' does not exist.
                                  There is no Concorde Street in Vienna,
Virginia.

                             As for per-minute charges for Internet
access, the FCC, not the United States
                             Congress, considered proposals to allow them
but rejected the proposals in
                             February 1999. The FCC says:

                                  Thus, the manner in which consumers pay
for Internet access is not
                                  before the Commission and the
Commission repeatedly has stated
                                  that it will not change the manner in
which consumers obtain and
                                  pay for Internet access. Rumors to the
contrary persist, however,
                                  and the FCC has received hundreds of
thousands of e-mails on the
                                  subject over the last two years.

               When?
                             April 1999
               Comments
                             This hoax started life as a bill supposedly
being considered in Canada (and
                             no, it is not true there either). Someone
changed all the Canadian references
                             to American references and yet another
Internet hoax was born.

                             Recently variations have appeared that
include warnings about toll fees for
                             Internet access.

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