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(Incidentally, the person who posted the MT business and subsequently received massive flames followed up with the observation:

I've received mail since then accusing me of posting an urban legend. Well, I checked out the story with a folklorist, and it turns out that it *doesn't* qualify as a real urban legend, but merely an incorrect rumor.

So there!)

--Sean ``alt.incorrect.rumor'' Smith

                         sean.smith@cs.cmu.edu
                     carnegie mellon computer science

          posting from PITTSBURGH, the center of the AFUniverse!

                    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                          Common Carrier Bureau
                           Enforcement Division
            Informal Complaints and Public Inquiries Branch
                                Suite 6202
                         Washington, D.C. 20554
                          Phone: (202) 632-7553

                                                       In Reply Refer To:
January 1990                                                       63203
                                                              ICB-FS-036

RUMORS REGARDING A COMPUTER MODEM SURCHARGE

The FCC has received letters from a number of computer modem users expressing concern about an alleged "proposal" before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that would result in a surcharge for the use of computer modems on the telephone network.

There is _no_ proposal pending before the FCC that would result in the application of a surcharge for the use of computer modems on the telephone network.

The FCC has been informed that various computer bulletin board systems are encouraging computer modem users to write to the FCC and to their congressional representatives to oppose this alleged proposal. The FCC's Common Carrier Bureau (Bureau) staff has contacted several bulletin board systems and requested those systems to advise their users that there is no proposal before the FCC at this time regarding a computer modem surcharge. Bureau staff is continuing to investigate possible sources of the surcharge rumors and to distribute correct information to computer modem users.

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