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Article #2135Re: Letter to NSF re: Internet Pricing
From: Rich Braun
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 18:22
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 18:22
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I liked that one person's argument about salt and ketchup on restaurant tables, since that's the angle I've taken the past year on this. Take out your spreadsheet and figure it out. The cost of keeping ketchup on a restaurant table is about $20/year. The cost of providing store-and-forward (UUCP, QWK, et al) electronic mail access to the public is about $20/year, assuming nominal daily usage of a few hundred kbytes or less of email/netnews. Thousands of BBS sysops are doing this, charging a price about this high or making it free, and very soon all of them will be linked to Internet one way or another. I'm doing my part by making public email available at this price level. So are many others. I'm not convinced the government can do much of anything at this price level. -rich -- Crawl, walk, run, fly. ____ Pioneer Global Telecommunications See URL http://www.pn.com \ / Affordable Internet: info@pn.com Home: richb@pioneer.ci.net \/ Work: braun@leds.enet.dec.com
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