[887] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
``cream skimming''
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Mon Jul 1 13:10:42 1991
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com, tcp-ip@nic.ddn.mil
Cc: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu, rma@tsar.cc.rochester.edu,
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 91 13:00:39 EDT
From: Stephen Wolff <steve@cise.nsf.gov>
You do a grave injustice to Bob Kahn by lumping in his aphorism "You gotta
have the flow to get the skim" with quotes on the subject of cream-skimming.
The implication of Bob's quote is just the OPPOSITE of cream-skimming; i.e.,
you can't subsidize a pro bono publico activity by a surcharge on your main
customers unless the "flow" from them is large enough to make the "skim"
for public service imperceptible.
-s
