[1255] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
impact of settlements on provision of free services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.e)
Wed Aug 28 22:35:45 1991
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 21:33:42 CDT
From: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: "Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postmaster)'s message of Wed, 28 Aug 91 03:10:59 -0700 <7642.683374259@apple.com>
Reply-To: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Erik E. Fair, fair@apple.com, writes:
>I, as Postmaster and Internet Liaison for Apple Computer, will put it
>in even more strong terms than Ed Vielmetti: we will not connect to a
>usage priced TCP/IP network.
Though I don't represent anybody, I'd like to point out that most
universities would be extremely upset as well. The computing
departments would have to hire accountants; they'd have to probably go
back to having [funny]money on students' accounts, which would be a
giant step backwards. (Or do most schools still do this?
Northwestern, where I went to undergrad, tossed that out with their
VAX; and I haven't seen it here at all--but these schools may be
slightly atypical. :-) In any case, usage-based charges would inhibit
schools with money-based accounts from giving it up.)
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