Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 4 Apr 91 18:10:10 GMT From: Ken Abrams Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: New FCC Modem Tax? Message-ID: Organization: Athenanet, Inc., Springfield, Illinois Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 272, Message 5 of 11 Lines: 34 In article SABAHE@macalstr.edu (Arun Baheti) writes: > Does anyone have any up-to-date information on the new tax that is > being considered? I assume that this YET ANOTHER re-hash of the proposal that died about four years ago. At that time, a file was being passed around on all the major nets. It usually began something like "I heard this on radio station WXYZ in Los Angeles yesterday.....". Things like this seem to NEVER die since the originator didn't put a date in the file. Some well meaning user stumbles across the thing years later and starts passing it around again. I even saw the Craig Shergold (cards to a dying boy) story crop up again last month. A plea to the original poster: Please provide us a little more detail on the situation you are asking about. If it does turn out to be the old story making the rounds again, please get back to your source and try to stop it. Ken Abrams uunet!pallas!kabra437 Illinois Bell kabra437@athenanet.com Springfield (voice) 217-753-7965 [Moderator's Note: And my thanks to everyone who wrote to debunk this old UL (Urban Legend) *hopefully* one last time. No modem tax, no surcharge, nothing. Please! Post these messages far and wide, and help bring a halt to this story. PAT]