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From: joltes@husc9.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.forsale.computers
Subject: Re: Modem TAX
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.111109.1324@husc3.harvard.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 15:11:08 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.061521.25657@sbcs.sunysb.edu> hyhuang@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Hsin-yuan Huang) writes:
>The following article is posted in news group misc.forsale. I think is
>important to act now, so I'm posting it here! For any information please
>contact the originator.
>
>**************************************************************************
[message about "proposed modem tax" deleted...]

Folks, this is an URBAN MYTH and has been going around the boards and whatnot
for years now.  Several people have investigated it, and have called the FCC
and other groups involved, and there is, to my knowledge, no such legislation
in the works or under discussion.

Don't write to anyone, and please don't pass the information around to anyone
else.  We're trying to kill it, if possible.

This is more-or-less in the same league as the "dying boy wants postcards"
posting, although that one was at one time true.  BTW, if you ever see another
letter stating that a "7 year old English boy named Craig Shergold" is in the
hospital with [pick a disease]" ignore it.  It's old news, and the cards are no
longer being accepted.  In fact, the Guinness people (publishers of the Book
of World Records) have removed the "most postcards received" category from
their book.

Remember, there's no known current effort to enact a modem tax.

Thanks,

Dick Joltes					   joltes@husc9.harvard.edu
Hardware & Networking Manager, Computer Services 	joltes@husc9.bitnet 
Harvard University Science Center