[11791] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: In the matter of adverti
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Wed Apr 20 00:25:16 1994
To: WALTHOWE@delphi.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, stevec@aol.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Apr 1994 21:49:30 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 22:04:43 -0400
From: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@us.psi.com>
excellant
your (personal at least) actions have always spoken strongly (to me at
least)
marty
> Marty Schoffstall writes:
>
> > While there are complaints about the "users" of the various on-line service
s,
> > I think there are bigger complaints about the "operators" of the on-line
> > service.
> >
> > Basically, given all their resources, they provide no community service at
> > all. UUNET provides lots of cool anon ftp capabilities, others provide NTP
> > servers, veronica servers, etc, for the Internet community for free.
> >
> > Neither AOL nor Delphi institutionally are providing anything to the
> > Internet community that is essentially "free". Some people think that
> > this is capital W Wrong. Minimally it is anti-volunteerism.
>
> I agree!
>
> On Delphi, we've done some token things with gophers, but there is more to
> come. There is significant concern that we can't be just takers of others'
> services, but must return value to the nets, and there are people and resourc
es
> in Delphi devoted to just that problem. I can't discuss specifics at this tim
e,
> but you won't be able to aim the criticism too much longer. We'll let our
> actions be the answer.
>
> Walt
