[WEB4LIB] Bill 602P

[Scott W. Sharpe]

> I do have a question posed to me by our CFO who was concerned about an
> email he received regarding the Bill 602P, that states that the Fed.
> Gov. will charge 5 cents  surcharge per email on every delivered email.
> Somewhere in the recesses of my mind I think this was determined to be a
> hoax, or maybe it was wishful thinking that it is.

This hoax circulates every few months or so.  Funny, but they never even
bother to change the name of the bill, even after everyone (or most everone)
knows that is fake.  Our local university newpaper even did a story about it
at one point, believing it to be true, then had to recount it and write
another article proclaiming it as a hoax.  This ranks right  up there with
"send thim email to as many people as possible and if it gets to 1,000 then
Bill Gates will send you a million dollars," or something like that.  Man, I
hate people who send those to me!

Scott W. Sharpe
Library Technology Specialist
Tahlequah Public Library
Tahlequah, Oklahoma