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New Resources Locator
MONTGOMERY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
In July 1998, Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) launched the new Resources Locator. This database is now available on the Internet at www.co.mo.md.us/services/hhs
Department of Health & Human Services
401 Hungerford Drive, 7th Floor
Rockville, MD 20850
If you have any questions, our staff can be reached at (240) 777-1287
or (240) 777- 4281
E- Mail: pottet@co.mo.md.us
Postal Service Offers Certified Email
Dateline: 05/18/00
"I swear, I never got that email!" How many of us have heard (or tried) that one before?
Fact is, the email simply does not always go through. The recent "Love Bug" virus resulted in the loss of untold thousands of email messages around the world.
Now, however, the U.S. Postal service offers customers the ability to send "certified" e-mail.
As an enhancement to its already fairly impressive Internet presence the USPS has just activated the Post Electronic Courier Service (PosteCS) which enables customers to create and send messages via the Internet through a postal account and the USPS data center. Customers don't need an Internet service provider to send electronic messages.
From any computer that can access the World Wide Web, users can access the PosteCS system at www.framed.usps.com/postecs to send and receive certified email. When a document is sent, it is stored on a USPS server and given its own "URL" or Web address. The intended recipient gets an e-mail notification that a document has been sent to them and that it can be accessed via the URL provided.
The sender gets separate notifications from the PosteCS system when the message has been sent, when the recipient has been notified, and when the message has been opened by the recipient.
When you register to use the PosteCS certified email system, you get a 30-day free trial of the service that will eventually cost $1.70 per transaction.
Reference Links
Post Electronic Courier Service - Certified Email System
Register to send certified email free for 30 days via this new system from the Postal Service.
USPS eBillPay System
Pay all your bills online anytime via this new service of the U.S. Postal Service. Free for 6 months and just $6.00 a month for 20 payments after that.
Buy Stamps Online
U.S. postage stamps ordered online and delivered to your door.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/newsissues/usgovinfo/library/egov/aa051800a.htm
Media Grok
A Review of Press Coverage of the Internet Economy
Wednesday, May 17, 2000
House Outlaws an Urban Legend
Pssst . . . have you heard the one about the modem tax? Frightened by a long-standing urban legend, U.S. citizens have been badgering their representatives for years about a nonexistent congressman who was supposedly eager to impose a steep per-minute charge on Internet access. Yesterday, Congress prohibited the FCC from ever imposing such a tax, whether proposed by real or unreal congresspersons. The FCC issued a polite "thank you" and reiterated for the skillionth time that it has no intention of levying any such charge.
News outlets disagreed about how long the legend has been circulating. The New York Times said "nearly two years," Reuters "at least a year," and TechWeb "over a year." In fact the legend's roots date to 1987.
Many papers, including the Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and SeattleTimes, ran some flavor of a story by the AP's Curt Anderson. (The Journal added a bylined sidebar with a link to the bill's text - and a typo in the URL.)
The New York Times and TechWeb covered the story straight. TechWeb's Mary Mosquera wrote that the hoax "generated more response from constituents than some real issues." Most everyone quoted Michigan Democrat John D. Dingell's sound bite: "What we are considering today is a fabricated solution to an imaginary problem," while the Journal's Glenn R. Simpson favored this Dingell gem: "I am not convinced that mounting a massive counterattack on a fictitious bill... is the best use of this committee's time." Most outlets related the bill to last week's action in the House extending the moratorium on Net taxes.
Wired and CNET took a different tack on H.R.1292, writing about the fears raised by a last-minute clause slipped in without debate. The clause: "Nothing in this subsection shall preclude the Commission (FCC) from imposing access charges on the providers of Internet telephone services ..." H.R.1292's sponsor said the addition merely clarified the bill's original intent, which was to cover data and not Net telephony. CNET's John Borland wrote that the legislation "is raising new fears that lawmakers could open the door to new fees on Net telephone services." Writing in Wired, Elisa Batista was even more blunt, claiming in the lead paragraph that the legislation "allows the government to impose per-minute charges for online voice services."
Far from stamping out an urban legend, the legislation may to give rise to new variants of it. Ready now? Forward this to everyone you know. - Keith Dawson
House OKs Ban on Per-Minute Net Access Fees http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,15159,00.html?nl=mg
House Takes a Stand on Fictitious E-Mail Tax
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/cyber/articles/17tax.html
(Registration required.)
U.S. House Bans Nonexistent Net Access Fees
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000516S0011
A Reminder to Eager Legislators: If It Ain't Broke ... Don't Fix It
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB958534678486942461.htm
(Paid subscription required.)
House Passes IP Charges Bill
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36339,00.html
Legislation Opens Doors for Net Phone Fees
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-1879118.html
House Acts to Block Net Access Fees
http://www.msnbc.com/news/408328.asp
House Votes to Prohibit RegulatorsFrom Extending Fees to Net Usage
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB958495196221291584.htm
(Paid subscription required.)
Rumor Prompts House to Ban Internet Access Charges
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/technology/html98/net_20000516.html
House Bans Net Access Charges
http://www.seattle-pi.com/business/ifon17.shtml
House Reacts to Cyber Rumor With Ban on Net Fee
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/May/17/business/CHARGES17.htm
NCLD
May 4, 2000
National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) is a nonprofit organization that provides educational programs and legislative advocacy for people with learning disabilities and their families. NCLD works directly with practitioners in the general and special education fields, policy makers, researchers and parents.
Each year thousands of people with learning disabilities and their families call us for assistance. One of the services we offer is free access to the information in our database of organizations that provide education, counseling, therapy, advocacy, and evaluation services to people with learning disabilities throughout the United States.
In the next few months, our information and referral databases will be accessible from our Web site, www.ncld.org
National Center for Learning Disabilities
381 Park Avenue South
Suite 1401
New York, NY 10016
888-575-7373
212-545-9665 (fax)
www.ncld.org
