[10613] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: bill to insure flat rate Internet email pricing (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johan Helsingius)
Mon Feb 28 08:00:32 1994
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Feb 94 13:48:57 EST."
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 13:08:04 +0200
From: Johan Helsingius <julf@penet.fi>
> I assume by "non-profit organization" you really mean tax-exempt?
> Such as 501Cx. Would you include industrial trade organizations such
> as the American Petrochemical Association (the IRS does)?
>
> Also, since this sort of distinction includes specifically
> organizations that live on the public largesse would you have any
> problem with this allowing millions of free "please give" notes going
> out constantly from Easter Seals, United Way, NOW, GreenPeace, Amnesty
> International, etc etc etc?
Even better... I have just decided to set up this non-profit, public-benefit
organization anon.org (or maybe anon.npo). And I definitely demand that
I be granted fixed, unmetered and reasonable access to the net. Anything
else would be unfair and undemocratic. You wouldn't expect me to pay for
120000 messages/month of other peoples mail and news postings out of my
own pocket, would you?
Yes, of course ;-)
Julf
