[107211] in Cypherpunks
RE: Internet = LD Call?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew James Gering)
Tue Jan 5 18:52:13 1999
From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
To: "Cypherpunks (E-mail)" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:33:58 -0800
Reply-To: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
No Tim, not for accessing stuff on the Internet, for access *to* the
Internet [via PSTN].
The LECs, *not* the IXCs, have been clamoring for the FCC to allow them to
charge ISPs per minute charges for access to their network the same way they
charge the IXCs.
It's old very old news, and it'll never happen. ISPs are exempt the same way
that paging companies are exempt, and they won't get those regs changed.
Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim May [mailto:tcmay@got.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 12:46 PM
> And how would the rent collectors know who I'm connecting
> to, and where they are? (Think of Web proxies.)
>
> Use common sense.
