[1937] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Connie Fleenor)
Thu Jan 9 15:52:20 1992
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 12:50:21 PST
From: cfleenor@lloyd.com (Connie Fleenor)
To: brian@angband.stanford.edu
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Barry Shein's message of Thu, 9 Jan 92 15:02:06 -0500 <9201092002.AA24785@world.std.com>
Reply-To: cfleenor@lloyd.com
Why can't we expect this kind of solution? It does indeed seem like
the answer. Surely the service providers who currently get a boost
from the government could survive a phase down of funding. There must
be a heck of a lot of money to be made, or this would not be taking up
so much of everyone's time, and energy.
>Seems that there is no easy answer. Easiest answer is private
>networking from which the NSF or other government institution buys
>service for RE. That eliminates the need to discriminate "good" RE
>bits from "evil" CO bits (or is it the other way around :-). I am not
>so naive as to expect this to happen. Heck, we would have nothing to
>argue about for several hours per day if this were done.
