[17378] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Great Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Fri May 29 19:07:50 1998
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 23:00:43 +0000 (GMT)
From: shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)
To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805291359.JAA29601@jekyll.piermont.com>
> Michael Shields writes:
> > Despite preductions, very few resources have ever actually become "too
> > cheap to meter".
>
> Television? Local phone service in many places? Matchbooks? Sewer
> service?
Television's incremental cost of another viewer is zero, and always
has been. This is not a matter of being too cheap to meter.
Matchbooks are not given away in unlimited quantities.
I honestly have no idea how sewer service is priced, or how the US
came to have flat-rate local calling.
--
Shields, CrossLink.
