When you propogate this garbage, you are needlessly clogging up the Net and wasting bandwidth. So cut it out. Congress has placed a moratorium on taxing the Internet until October 2001. There is no doubt state and local governments are chomping at the bit to somehow get sales tax revenue from the Net, and various groups are studying that. The Washingtonian had recently advocated such a tax.
Problem is, the congressman and the bill never existed.
Let your congressman's staff work on fixing some little old lady's Social Security problem. But it's a years-old story that had taken many forms. In conclusion, don't believe everything you see on the Internet, especially in e-mails from out of the blue. And while you check your e-mail, keep a finger lightly resting on the Delete key, ready for action. David Wichner is the editor of Star Tech.