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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Masto)
Tue Jul 22 17:56:37 1997

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:38:50 -0400
From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
To: Ted Timmons <tedder@abcompsvc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970722143654.009ff9f0@206.190.137.44>; from Ted Timmons on Tue, Jul 22, 1997 at 02:36:54PM -0700

On Tue, Jul 22, 1997 at 02:36:54PM -0700, Ted Timmons wrote:
> At 05:32 PM 7/22/97 -0400, Christopher Masto wrote:
> >> 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..
> 
> >I _wouldn't_ discourage registration.  That's the point.
> 
> So exactly _how_ would you keep millions of people from registering domain
> names? Even if it _weren't_ free (I'll argue that another time), you'd
> still have tons of people (I'll generalize, and assume they're high school
> students that couldn't afford the $100) that would be signing up for domain
> registration because they're going though a cheap ISP.

Gee, the horror.  Affordable Internet services.
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