[10446] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: bill to insure flat rate Internet email pricing (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (welch@oar.net)
Wed Feb 23 13:34:49 1994
From: welch@oar.net
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 13:30:39 -0500
In-Reply-To: James Love <love@essential.org>'s message of Wed, 23 Feb 1994 01:48:41 -0500 (EST)
To: <love@essential.org>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
An important feature of this is the requirement that the
Internet service include a FLAT RATE service for electronic mail
sent to and from non-commercial Internet discussion groups and
lists.
How exactly are you proposing this be implemented? Should the service
providers keep a list of all the non-commercial mailing lists and
compare headers on every mail message that comes in? The computational
resources for doing this are incredible, and the list-of-lists keeps
growing with every release. Besides, not all mailing lists mark their
headers. If non-commercial mail is free then messages from
commerce-related mailing lists will be charged a whole lot more to cover
costs. Do you really want to pay $10 for every message on com-priv? Are
you proposing this with the hidden agenda that all email will be free,
since the computational costs of charging will be greater than it'll be
worth?
..arun
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Arun Welch 1224 Kinnear Rd
Network Engineer Columbus, OH 43212
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