Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:42:01 -0700
Reply-To: coyote <coyote@LIKEMINDS.COM>
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From: coyote <coyote@LIKEMINDS.COM>
Subject: CAUCE alert for residents of California
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I'm posting this to the vanagon list because unsolicited commercial email
('spam') is a problem which has affected most folks at one point or another.
Coyote (CAUCE member)
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From: owner-cauce-ca@abuse.net [mailto:owner-cauce-ca@abuse.net] On
Behalf Of John Levine
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 9:01 AM
To: comments@cauce.org
Subject: CAUCE alert for residents of California
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URGENT message to CAUCE members in California
If you live in California, you need to call your state's representatives
on the Telecom subcommittee today, immediately, to tell them that you
strongly oppose H.R. 3888 which will cause more, not less, spam.
Tomorrow, THIS THURSDAY may well mean the difference between success
and disaster in the fight against "spam". Your phone call is
*URGENTLY* needed.
This Thursday, the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade and
Consumer Protection is tentatively scheduled to be take up bill
H.R. 3888. As currently written, the bill, written by subcommittee
chairman W.J. "Billy" Tauzin (R-Louisiana), would legalize most forms
of junk e-mail and severely hamper ISP efforts to cut off spammers.
Unfortunately, other provisions of the bill which deal with telephone
long distance issues are receiving more attention from lawmakers.
Many members of the committee still don't understand how strong
opposition to H.R. 3888 really is! Rep. Tauzin believes the pro-spam
portions of the bill are not controversial. The members of his
committee need to be told differently BY YOU!
We need *every* CAUCE member to IMMEDIATELY phone the
Telecommunications Subcommittee members from your state. It _doesn't_
matter if you're not in their Congressional District; your input is
still extremely important. Unless they hear from you, they'll never
know how bad H.R. 3888 is.
You should ask for the staff member who deals with "telecommunications
issues" and tell them:
"I am from California. I am a member of the Coalition Against Unsolicited
Commercial Email. I am calling to OPPOSE the "spam" parts of bill
H.R. 3888. If this bill passes on Thursday, it will legalize spam and
hurt the Internet. I hate spam and that's why I'm AGAINST
H.R. 3888. Please tell the Congressman/woman that on Thursday, he/she
should either VOTE AGAINST the spamming part of the bill or else VOTE
TO CHANGE IT."
The committee member(s) from California and phone numbers are:
Phone Fax
CA 14 D Anna G. Eshoo 202-225-8104 202-225-8890
CA 27 R James Rogan 202-225-4176 202-225-5828
CA 47 R Christopher Cox 202-225-5611 202-225-9177
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Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail.
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