[6192] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic address allocation policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Nov 19 13:57:18 1996
To: Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:35:03 EST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 13:39:49 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Eric Germann writes:
> The barrier to entry for that poor person is significantly higher, in the
> real world, for the poor person. Net access may be had for $20/month. But
> the hardware is a significant barrier for the poor person.
Used PCs capable of providing net access are very cheap these days --
$100 will get you a not entirely unreasonable setup for many purposes.
Perry
