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- From: au329@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ronda Hauben)
- Newsgroups: news.misc,comp.misc,news.admin.misc,alt.amateur-comp,misc.misc
- Subject: Re: How is the Net financed and what does it cost?
- Message-ID: <1edq67INNljh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:15:03 GMT
- Article-I.D.: usenet.1edq67INNljh
- References: <4JV2TB6w165w@mertwig.UUCP> <LIMES.92Nov9103907@ouroborous.eng.sun.com>
- Reply-To: au329@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ronda Hauben)
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- In a previous article, xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) says:
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- >limes@ouroborous.eng.sun.com (Greg Limes) writes:
- >
- >> In article <gmmsTB9w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) wr
- >> | Like telephone?
- >> | I don't want to have to pay more to telnet farther. Thats plain stupid.
- >> | The whole point of the net is a cyberspace where distance is meaningless.
- >>
- >> Fine. Figure out what it would have cost if all of your connections were
- >> to timbucktu and send the difference to your favorite charity. ;-)
- >
- >It really shoudn't cost all that much more! Yeah, maybe a milliwatt of
- >energy. But I'm not USING a line, just a couple nanoseconds of time for
- >my packet.
- >
- >
- Neat :)
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- Not only is the net a very efficient way to communicate -
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- Something valuable is created via the contributions that the various
- users make.
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- And we all benefit from each others contributions.
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- ronda
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- >Daniel Max P. Drucker | #define SLOGAN Hey! Lets port it to COBOL!
- >The 14 year old net.comm.genius. | Disclaimer: I don't know COBOL.
- > /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\/~\/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\
- >/ Difficulty! It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe! \
- >\__________________________________________________________________________/
- >/ Is there anyone out there in net.land in Port Washington, New York? \
- >\______a m a t e u r____r a d i o____c a l l s i g n____p e n d i n g______/
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