[11108] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
What is an "Internet reseller"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Tue Mar 22 04:01:25 1994
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 19:51:45 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: tenney@netcom.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Glenn S. Tenney's message of Sat, 19 Mar 1994 03:04:32 -0800 <199403191104.DAA06309@netcom9.netcom.com>
>From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
>but if I wanted to get
>started on a shoestring with a 486 running BSDI, I would definitely not
>want to hvae to pay CIX more than two times what my entire hardware cost
>me.
Why? Because it's all worthless to you?
If it's worthless then why bother discussing it?
This list is sounding more like a rug market every day.
Is there anything more interesting going on here than bargaining the
price?
I don't get it. We've gone from down-trodden masses yearning to be
IP'd to down-trodden entrepeneurs yearning to minimize short-term
capitalization risk profiles. It's very peculiar.
In contrast to your other flat-rate theme it sounds to me like your
problem here really is that the CIX charges a flat-rate when you
believe that it should reflect usage, no?
-Barry Shein
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