[10506] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: bill to insure flat rate Internet email pricing (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Civille)
Fri Feb 25 18:05:36 1994
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 10:35:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Civille <rciville@civicnet.org>
To: welch@oar.net
Cc: love@essential.org, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199402231830.NAA00875@spridel.oar.net>
On Wed, 23 Feb 1994 welch@oar.net wrote:
> 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?
This is probably incorrect. No such accounting detail is required for
fourth class postage, and no one is bugging residential calls to make sure
they are not used for business purposes. Internet domain name
registration is all that would be needed. For example, .edu designations
would already be sufficient, and perhaps another designation, such as .npo
for "non profit organization" could be considered.
Why make this so complicated?
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