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      All these administrative issues go away if you charge real money.
Netcom gives me the following message at logon:

> NETCOM On-line Communication Services, Inc.
>  
>   >>>>   News will be offline for a few hours today, so that we can
>   >>>>   upgrade to a faster machine.
>  
> Your account balance is:       19.50
>  
> This disk usage summary is for the last 20 days.
> Your average usage to date is:     5.86 meg
> At this rate your disk charge will be: $   2.14

       The first 5MB of disk space is covered with the monthly charge
for the account, and amounts over 5MB are billed at a modest rate.
This eliminates any reason for the system administration to be concerned
with file content, which is appropriate to a commercial service.

       Netcom is constantly upgrading their hardware, as usage and revenue
increase.  For a commercial service, this is what you want to happen.
Yet the rates are much lower than those of a competing service, the WELL,
which has underpowered hardware and a much larger staff.

					John Nagle