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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Lloyd)
Fri Jan 10 00:10:25 1992

Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 21:08:41 PST
From: brian@lloyd.com (Brian Lloyd)
To: cfleenor@lloyd.com
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Connie Fleenor's message of Thu, 9 Jan 92 12:50:21 PST <9201092050.AA03383@ray.lloyd.com>
Reply-To: brian@lloyd.com

   Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 12:50:21 PST
   From: cfleenor@lloyd.com (Connie Fleenor)
   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.


It could be done.  Let's talk about it.

BP

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