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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!usc!not-for-mail
  2. From: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
  4. Subject: Re: Justification for commercial access to INTERNET facilities?
  5. Date: 15 Nov 1992 22:55:31 -0800
  6. Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  7. Lines: 11
  8. Message-ID: <1e7gl3INNioo@neuro.usc.edu>
  9. References: <1e5aucINNgcp@neuro.usc.edu> <CKD.92Nov15194836@loiosh.eff.org>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: neuro.usc.edu
  11.  
  12. >Now I'll have a little demonstration.  The direct Internet path between
  13. >your machine and mine crosses *no* federally subsidized long-haul
  14. >network.  Not one.  
  15.  
  16. Point well taken.  Some of these sites are government subsidized by
  17. tax preferences to donors for charitable contributions to their host
  18. organizations -- but you're right -- at least this path is more or
  19. less free of direct government funding.
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