From: Daniel Burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Modem Tax - READ!
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... and included a lengthy discussion about a "modem tax."
to which dannyb@panix.com (danny burstein) responds:
afriad you've been hoaxed. this memo has been floating around for quite awhile, and was thoroughly debunked on telecom-digest, among others.
a few hints that this was a phoney:
a) check out the names again.
b) the memo usually starts off by quoting a non-existant newspaper. your version left it off, but if you have the full text of it, you'll see what I mean.
c) no copy editor would ever let a reporter pass through a sentence like "that vice-president Gore is a supporter of." (something about that sentence ending with a word with which I wll not put up - a misquote attributed to Churchill...)
take care,
(misspellings are probably due to my typing...)