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Kenji> I see many organizations who are violating the usage rule of Japan-US
Kenji> academic link - the link is only for academic and WIDE-supporting
Kenji> organizations (such as mei.co.jp and astem.or.jp). I insist that those
Kenji> who want to join and support Internet culture MUST have international
Kenji> reachablity by their own money - since it's technically very expensive
Kenji> and time-consuming to make international email UNreachable. Just
Kenji> paying some ten-thousand-yen bills to InetClub or subscribing UUNET
Kenji> will solve this problem peacefully.

However, without a clear policy and fund from the Mombusho or MITI, I
think this kind of action would be very difficult. We need governmental
support to create infra-structrue first. I admire, for instance, Finland
and other nordic countries where local PTTs offered commercial network
connectivity. I think we could do the same, but we need someone in
the government to create projects and infrastructure for a commercial
Internet. (Well, commercial Internet is a hot issue in the US too...)

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