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Doug Willis wrote:
> 
> Revenant wrote:
> 
>>   THE AUSTRALIAN INTERNET IS UNDER ATTACK.  PLEASE SIGN THE ONLINE
>>   PETITION AT: http://www.ozlink.net/
>> 
>>   Anyone can sign, not just Australians.  Please help!
>>
>>   On March 25, 1997, the Australian Parliament passed legislation that
>>   threatens to shut down the Internet in Australia. 
> 
> If the internet must rely on distorted economics of cross subsidies
> from everyday phone users, then it is destined to collapse. The
> principle of user pays will ultimately ensure the internets survival.
> Untimed Local Calls are currently providing a subsidy to ISP's. 

So what you are saying is that the "everyday" users with their untimed
local phone calls are subsidising the untimed data calls these same
"everyday" users are making to ISPs.

HUH???   This man HAS to be an economic rationalist!!!

Now, what was that profit figure Telstra announced recently??
You know, the one they announced around the same time they announced 
their pressing need to make 22,000 workers redundant.

Make no mistake, timed data calls are the thin edge of the wedge.

Could someone please post a URL to the email addresses of MPs.
I think some of the readers of this group may have need of it.

Gaz

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 Gary R Curtis                      mailto:opus.logic@mailbox.uq.edu.au
 Brisbane,  Queensland,  Australia             mailto:gaz@humbug.org.au
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