[9299] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Cost vs benefit of internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Tue Dec 28 10:42:14 1993
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 93 10:41 EST
From: emv@garnet.msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
: So far, I haven't heard of any service provider willing to offer
: anything close to this. So my search for a networking service (I've got
: plenty of computer power in the network of computers in my house)
: lets me use netcom's Sun shell computers, or pay Brad's 10x. (Actually it
: would be 14.2x).
Find some small number of friends, incorporate, get a line to the
Internet, get some modems for your own in-dials, and bring the
cash price down yourself. (You are trading your time and effort
and aggregation of circuits for money.) If there are busy signals
you have only yourself and your colleagues to blame.
If you can't get the service you want at the price you want,
either you are not looking hard enough or no one is offering
it. No one may be offering it because it is not profitable.
--Ed
