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 )

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