In a message of  Harold Eddens (1:100/4) writes:
 HE> Answer to mike:  I'm not sure, but the government is looking for ways to
 HE> tax or control the net.  They managedto use an old law to get revenue
 HE> from alternate mail services. It may be difficult or impossible to get
 HE> revenue from net or international net e-mail, but that does'nt stop them
 HE> from trying. Mike, since this is getting slightly off topic, you can
 HE> pursue this further with me at harold.eddens@slug.org but, Unfortunately
 HE> I dont have the original article and It's legal implications. H.E.
I don't have a problem with continued discussion of this topic as long as it 
doesn't get out of hand and pre-empt our primary function of support for 
modems of the USR and 3Com family.
   Gene Lowry - USR_MODEMS Moderator
 
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