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Re: Quote from Kashpureff / Re: question about per. hack

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ted Timmons)
Tue Jul 22 17:42:23 1997

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 14:27:11 -0700
To: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Ted Timmons <tedder@abcompsvc.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970722170749.51736@netmonger.net>

At 05:07 PM 7/22/97 -0400, Christopher Masto wrote:
>Now _that's_ not right at all.  I think the excuse of charging a fee for
>something to discourage its use is ridiculous.  Where exactly are these
>AOLers going to get primary and secondary name service?  Web servers?
>Mail forwarders?

With the latest free email, web pages, etc (juno, hotmail, geocities), it
wouldn't take too long for someone to come up with free DNS, MXing, etc..

How would _you_ discourage registration? By not explaining it very well?
That hasn't kept the idiots away from unix, Perl, etc...
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