chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (01/10/90)
Recently a message announcing that the FCC is considering a surcharge on modem users has been showing up on USENET in various groups. Research has shown that there is no basis for this letter -- it seems to be an accidental re-release of a 2 year old message. The FCC is not considering any surcharge of any kind, and they are currently getting about 200 letters a day on the subject (that they would like to see stop coming). The Talk Show host mentioned in the letter (Jim Eason of KGO) has been pestered by a lot of calls (including the FCC) wondering what was going on, and hasn't been involved in the issue in two years. Please STOP posting or distributing this message. If you have a copy, destroy it. It is obsolete and causing problems on networks and BBSes nationwide. There is no proposal on the docket and none being considered. We need to wipe this silly thing out before things get further out of hand. chuq