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In article <1993Mar11.013711.8691@netcom.com> marv@netcom.com (Marvin Raab) writes:
>
>From Page 1 of the Business Section of the San Jose Mercury News, 3/10/93:
>(reprinted without permission)
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>White House worries
>Internet could snag staff
>
>[Mentions how the Internet has become a playground for academia, research,
> and hacking and now for the Clinton Administration, too]
>[ Mentions how the White House is using email...and 100K length files]
>
>But federal officials are reportedly concerned about the same kind of
>traffic in reverse. Opening their computers to email from tens of thousands
>of computer-using citizens could clog the hi-tech plumbing.
>
>Anyone who's used the Internet even briefly is familiar with the 
>"flames" it generates, long-winded pieces of emotional pretzel logic
>by users who do little more than sit at their computers all night. With
>the administration online, some in DC fear it's only a matter of time
>before flames get sent their way. A few insiders say there's already
>talk of somehow levying a modest fee on email senders to keep the 
>flames at bay--or at least douse them a little.
>
>Marvin Raab                                  

Maybe they need to hire a consultant to tell them how to create a kill file.
I know, how about Robert Morris, his father I think still works for the 
National Security Agency.
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In article <1993Mar11.013711.8691@netcom.com> marv@netcom.com (Marvin Raab) writes:
>
>
>
>From Page 1 of the Business Section of the San Jose Mercury News, 3/10/93:
>(reprinted without permission)
>
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>White House worries
>Internet could snag staff
>
>[Mentions how the Internet has become a playground for academia, research,
> and hacking and now for the Clinton Administration, too]
>[ Mentions how the White House is using email...and 100K length files]
>
>But federal officials are reportedly concerned about the same kind of
>traffic in reverse. Opening their computers to email from tens of thousands
>of computer-using citizens could clog the hi-tech plumbing.
>
>Anyone who's used the Internet even briefly is familiar with the 
>"flames" it generates, long-winded pieces of emotional pretzel logic
>by users who do little more than sit at their computers all night. With
>the administration online, some in DC fear it's only a matter of time
>before flames get sent their way. A few insiders say there's already
>talk of somehow levying a modest fee on email senders to keep the 
>flames at bay--or at least douse them a little.
>
>
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>Marvin Raab                                  
>marv@netcom.com                              Mountain View, CA 94040
>apple.com!netcom.com!marv                    415-961-6501 (h)

a modest fee? for using email?!?! And I thought it would be a good idea 
to have a technology minded president. 

Is it actually cheaper and more ecologically sound to physically schlep dead
trees around than sending a few electrons down a wire?  

Sheesh! Double sheesh!

We now return you to the long-winded pieces of emotional pretzel 
logic ...

In article <1993Mar11.225051.24734@oracle.us.oracle.com>
dcriswel@oracle.uucp (David Criswell) writes:
>a modest fee? for using email?!?! And I thought it would be a good idea 
>to have a technology minded president. 

Here at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, I have one document
which notes that Gore's NREN Bill (1991) made allowances for charging use.
No free lunch.

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