[10448] 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 14:13:51 1994
From: welch@oar.net
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 14:10:35 -0500
In-Reply-To: James Love <love@essential.org>'s message of Wed, 23 Feb 1994 13:52:28 -0500 (EST)
To: <love@essential.org>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
I don't think that you have exhausted the range of
possiblities here. But the methods don't have to be so difficult.
Suppose, for example, that someone simply added something to an
address such as via.noncom, and that was sent under the flat rate
pricing system.
But:
a) that requires looking at the headers
b) Are you really proposing that you have two DNS records, one for
essential.org and one for essential.org.via.noncom?
c) Or are you suggesting a change to the SMTP headers?
for all its problems, the NSF AUP did work at a fairly low
cost (even if you support its demise).
Because it was ignored, circumvented, or open to pretty wide
interpretation. A large number of the info-xxx mailing lists deal with
commercial products, and the justification for their existence was that
they were invariably hosted on academic machines and that they
contributed to the research going on at those institutions by providing
timely access to information about that hardware or software. The
existence of such a list just happens to provid a vendor with a
pre-selected advertising base for announcements of new products.
Hell, com-priv would qualify, since it is a non-commerical
list.
What does the "com" in "com-priv" stand for?
Who decides if a mailing list is commercial or not? Could you name some
of the mailing lists in the list-of-lists that you believe would qualify
as commercial, and some that wouldn't, and what your justification would
be?
..arun
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