At 9:52 AM -0500 5/14/00, Chris Smith wrote: > >I'm sorry to tell you, but this is another urban legend. Please do not >pass it on, as it is untrue. This message has been floating around the net >for years and years. > >Chris Smith
Not **this** time it isn't...here's Jeff Pulver's own authentication:
>Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 11:28:58 -0400 (EDT) >From: Jeff Pulver <jeff@pulver.com> >To: IP Telephony Industry <news@pulver.com> >Subject: SOS: UPDATE - IP TELEPHONY REGULATION IN US - HR 1291: SOS > > >SOS: UPDATE - IP TELEPHONY REGULATION IN US - HR 1291: SOS >( http://pulver.com/reports/helpstophr1291.html ) > > >Hi There, > >As you know from my earlier email, Congress will vote Tuesday on HR 1291, >which permits the FCC to regulate IP telephony. > >Some of you have asked whether this is another hoax about regulation or >taxation of the Internet. **THIS IS NO HOAX*. The original bill, as >introduced, said nothing about IP telephony. See >( http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c106:H.R.1291.IH: ). The new >bill, amended only last week without any public hearings on this issue and >scheduled for the kind of vote that is limited to "noncontroversial" >items, has a new section that distinguishes the use of the Internet for >voice communications from other uses of the Internet and practically >invites the FCC to regulate Internet telephony and impose old-fashioned >access charges even on PC-to-PC applications. >( See http://com-notes.house.gov/5102000full/amendment1.pdf ) [...snip...]
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