[11520] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: What's an ISP again...?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Tue Apr 5 08:48:47 1994
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 23:50:25 -0800
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
At 1:06 AM 4/5/94 -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
>Inasmuch as anything that costs money does, which was my point. I'd
>imagine the fact that cisco charges for their routers and the phone
>companies their leased lines and the landlords their office space and
>the staff their salaries works AGAINST (sic) those goals just as well,
>no?
Wait a minute. All *I* was talking about was CIX membership not net
access. All of those routers, and lines you mention are SEPARATE from CIX
membership. It was strictly the MEMBERSHIP fee I was talking about. Not a
free service -- those developing countries would still have to pay for the
routers and phone lines, but why should they pay to be sure their packets
don't get dropped by some routers? If that were to happen, wouldn't that
hurt the spread of the net?
Barry, let's take this to email... Your focused on this "service for free"
problem and that's far from what I'm talking about...
btw, I appreciate what you and World does, but you might have a different
opinion when CIX decides that anyone selling shell accounts should also
join...
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Glenn Tenney
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