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Re: Protest proposed phone company Internet charges



At 10:49 AM 5/4/99 -0600, Ken Freed typed, erroneously:

>My friend Jon Leland at Media Mall today emailed me about a dangerous
>move in Congress to permit telephone companies to charge long distance
>rates for email being shipped over their wires to distant locations. I
>don't yet
>know all the details or the bill's title, but Jon's a "reliable source,"
>and would
>not put his credibility on the line (see below) unless the problem was real.


Too bad. Looks like Ken's buddy Jon has lost all credibility.

This is the same old hoax, folks.

It's just not true. <sigh>.


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