[107212] in Cypherpunks
RE: Internet = LD Call?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (xasper8d@lobo.net)
Tue Jan 5 19:13:53 1999
From: "X" <xasper8d@lobo.net>
To: "Matthew James Gering" <mgering@ecosystems.net>,
"Cypherpunks (E-mail)" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 16:55:45 -0700
In-reply-to: <5F152E6E8E6FD21195DF00104B2425AD02B40E@YARROWBAY>
Reply-To: "X" <xasper8d@lobo.net>
So, boiled down, does this mean that Congress is not trying to pass
legislation to that effect in the next few weeks?
X
~> -----Original Message-----
~> From: owner-cypherpunks@minder.net
~> [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@minder.net]On Behalf Of Matthew James Gering
~> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 4:34 PM
~> To: Cypherpunks (E-mail)
~> Subject: RE: Internet = LD Call?
~>
~>
~>
~> 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.
~>
~>
