Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!coherent!dplatt From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: FCC Regulations Summary: Probably a false alarm, folks Message-ID: <43593@improper.coherent.com> Date: 4 Jan 90 05:20:46 GMT References: <3464@hub.UUCP> Reply-To: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) Distribution: usa Organization: Coherent Thought Inc., Palo Alto CA Lines: 42 Sigh. Don't fly off the handle, folks. It appears that this is a false alarm. To quite from comp.dcom.telecom article <2412@accuvax.nwu.edu> submitted by Fred R. Goldstein: ------ begin quote ------ Cripes. This again. It's becoming the new Chain Letter. It popped up in comp.unix.wizards last month and I think I had it squashed there, but alas, this moderated group has allowed it to surface. Here's the poop. When the new FCC chair Alf Sykes was being confirmed, he was grilled on this topic by Congressman Markey, who chairs the House subcommittee that oversees the FCC. Sykes was made to swear on a stack of bibles, so to speak, that this "enhanced service provider" (not modem, btw, though the two often overlap) surcharge was dead. Markey made clear that a congressional LAW preventing it was being put on the back burner only out of courtesy to Sykes. If Sykes hadn't been so docile, the law would have been passed; Congress doesn't like this crap any more than we do! And Markey does have power over Sykes to hit him where it hurts in case he is lying: His subcommittee oversees the FCC's budget and appropriations. In government, that's everything. I do have a copy of the appropriate Congressional Record article (Nov. 6, 1989) quoting Markey on this, and Markey's press release on the subject. So I'm not rumormongering. Someone on Fidonet is. Fred R. Goldstein goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com or goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com voice: +1 508 486 7388 ------ end quote ------ -- Dave Platt VOICE: (415) 493-8805 UUCP: ...!{ames,apple,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303