[9259] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Cost vs benefit of internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Cox @ GMU/PSOL)
Mon Dec 27 11:10:41 1993
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1993 11:09:59 -0500
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: bcox@gmu.edu (Brad Cox @ GMU/PSOL)
Cc: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) wrote:
>And those not-bottom-of-the-barrel example prices are quite on the
>mark, since people here have already rejected inexpensive dial-in
>connections to the internet as being just too low-ball for their
>tastes.
Thanks for yet another wonderful article, Barry. But it raises a factual
question that I'm sure is on many of us internet consumers' minds.
What precisely *is* the difference in cost in providing a bottom of the
barrel unix shell account versus a SLIP or PPP capable account?
This question isn't to challenge that there is a real difference. Its to
request information not at my disposal. I have a reasonable idea of the
work involved in maintaining a shell account. But I have none whatsoever
re: SLIP/PPP, nor the extent to which the latter is amenable to reduction
thru automation.
