bobby,

A friend of mine was hoodwinked into sending the same thing to me...  I
thought it was a hoax, and sure enough it was...

>   Subject: Email hoax
>   Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 23:15:17 -0500
>   From: Charli J Seitz <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> Dear friends,
>
> I checked this out and found this message on the Washingtonian web site.
> Sorry to alarm anyone!  Love ya'll---Charli
>
>
> The message that is apparently out over the Internet about an
>             "editorial" by The Washingtonian supporting an e-mail tax is
> a
>             hoax.
>
>             We never wrote such an article or editorial. We do not have a
>             "March 6" issue. The congressman quoted does not exist; the
> bill
>             number does not exist; the law firm which supposedly wrote
> this
>             e-mail does not exist; the address given for the law firm
> does not
>             exist; and an almost identical e-mail was started a month
>             beforehand claiming that the Canadian government was going to
>             impose an e-mail tax.
>
>             We at The Washingtonian do not know who put this hoax out,
>             but it is not true.
>
>                                            --The Washingtonian
>
Bobby Greer wrote:
>
> List members,
>
>         In case you have not heard of this bill, take a look at what the greedy
> Postal Service is trying to do!!!
>
> Bobby
>
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