[11823] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: NYTimes 'green card' article
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Gingery)
Thu Apr 21 08:40:38 1994
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 04:57:00 -0600
From: bruce@totsyssoft.com (Bruce Gingery)
To: "Mark R. Ludwig" <Mark-Ludwig@uai.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: Bruce Gingery <lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu>
On Wed, 20 Apr 1994 17:27:34 -0700, "Mark R. Ludwig"
<Mark-Ludwig@uai.com> said:
> ...In this case, if such a clause existed in the adhesion
> the lawyer signed to get the timesharing account (why it
> probably isn't a "contract" is a separate topic), it might
> be possible for the ISP to get back the staff costs of
> dealing with the onslaught of e-mail as well as whatever
> opportunity costs the provider forwent because said e-mail
> degraded the service for the rest of the customers, etc.
> It's still not trivial to quantify these costs.$$
Now that is a new topic for com-priv and quite relevant to
privitization...
What's an "adhesion" other than a glueing operation, or a
biological anamoly where tissues comparably "glue" together
improperly. What is the difference between this "adhesion" and a
binder? -- a contract?
Bruce Gingery
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