[3917] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed Aug 28 23:30:21 1996
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:12:51 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
To: ed@texas.net, jerry@fc.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Edward Henigin <ed@texas.net> wrote:
> Unmetered usage develops an environment which puts some sort
>of backpressure on the end user, to discourage or prevent the usage
>of too much resource.
....
>The journalist may be stupid, but the point has some merit.
To be more precise it would have had merit if Internet
metering was at least remotely technically feasible.
Or are we going to discuss some hot mountain real estate deals
we could get by melting some ice in Antarctic?
--vadim
