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Re: bill text draft 2: Telecommunications Competition Act (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (welch@oar.net)
Wed Jan 26 18:44:09 1994

From: welch@oar.net
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 18:42:19 -0500
In-Reply-To: your message of Wed, 26 Jan 1994 21:51:03 GMT
To: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com

    Well now, latest statement I have heard from Al Weis is 10
    terabytes a month.  So that is one terabyte a month of MUDs
    financed by the US taxpayer at a cost of roughly $100,005.00 a
    month ( one tenth of your current monthly payment from NSF.)

I'm not sure what is the point of this statement. Is it ANS's
responsibility if people are using the NSF backbone for a particular
kind of traffic?  I for one would be *very* disturbed if a backbone had
wierd restrictions based on packet types.  Besides, not all MUD-type
traffic is people playing, a lot of people are using this technology for
collaborative environments for Real Work (tm). 

..arun
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