[91] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Is SUNFLASH misuse of the network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Sun Nov 11 10:36:13 1990
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Cc: schoff@psi.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 10 Nov 90 21:40:13 -0500.
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 90 09:38:38 -0500
From: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
Thanks Barry,
You make a perfect straight man. I don't know, but let's
pretend its the service provider (SUN) who is
at risk. If I was a business shipping your magazines that you
subscribed to, I could pay the USPostal service their tithe by walking
down to the postoffice and handing them say $1000 for stamps. My
alternative is to to hand $50 to my friend at the local federal office
to hand me a whole bunch of those Federal envelopes that are already
franked for "Official Use". I get to leverage off of the subsidy and
definitely reduce the cost to my business.
Marty
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On the other hand, it does bring up another issue...
To receive SunFlash you have to ask for it, you have to ask to be put
on their mailing list (perhaps there are exceptions.)
So who's decision/responsibility should it be?
Sun's, to refuse to put you on unless you can provide a non-protected
path?
Or yours, to be ready to justify why you believe it's ok for you to
receive it over that path?
-Barry Shein
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