[13188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAP Architecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Thu Oct 30 09:09:43 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:08:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: bmanning@ISI.EDU
cc: mleber@he.net, ahp@hilander.com, blkirk@float.eli.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199710301403.AA08109@zed.isi.edu>
Why aren't one-off costs enough? There is *no* re-occuring costs with a
cable hanging on the ceiling.
Point taken on 'what the market will bear', but thats not the discussion
here.
> Nope. Its not free. And simple one off costs are not enough. The
> recuring costs are there and anyone who does not pass them on is
> to be taken advantage of and abused. Of course if you can charge
> what the market will bear, then your stock price will rise as you can
> pay out those phat dividends. Customer complaints simply show that
> they are paying (attention/the usual and customary fees). If they were
> -really- pissed (drunk/upset) they'd vote w/ their pocketbook and
> find other accomodations elsewhere.
>
> --
> --bill
>
