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Subject: Re: Packet access charges -- FCC re-proposes gouging
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Date: Sun, 14-Jun-87 01:26:38 EDT
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in article <8706111427.AA27300@decwrl.dec.com>, goldstein@delni.DEC.COM (Fred R. Goldstein dtn226-7388) says:

[lots of important stuff about proposed $5/hour FCC access fee]

If you wish to complain, write letters complaining to the FCC about the
proposed regulation, and to your congress-critters (both Senators, and your
House representative). I can't telll you how to reach your congress-critter,
but here's how to reach the FCC:

Chairman Dennis R. Patrick, FCC
1919 M Street
N.W., Washington DC 20554

Note that hand-written letters tend to come across better to congress-critters
thinking about bouncing babies and "the folks back home"... they tend to get
turned off by neat clean type-written or worse yet WORD PROCESSED letters,
thinking "oh no, it's those d**ned special interest groups again". As for the
FCC, probably enclosing a copy of your bank statement, with a balance of over
12 billion dollars, would be best for getting the attention of the staunch
conservatives who run it.... after all, remember Reagan's motto, "government
by the rich, for the rich"...  alas, since I don't have $12 in my bank
account, I'll have to settle for sending just an ordinary letter.