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- From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
- Subject: Re: How is the Net financed and what does it cost?
- Message-ID: <BxB93B.9yJ@exnet.co.uk>
- Organization: ExNet Systems Ltd Public Access News, London, UK
- References: <1d6kd9INN2ar@armory.centerline.com> <gmmsTB9w165w@mertwig.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:04:23 GMT
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- In article <gmmsTB9w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) writes:
- >> Someday we'll probably see network usage metered by packet similar to
- >> the way electricity is packaged, but that's some time off. A better
- >> solution would be to charge similar to the way phone services are
- >> charged (a flat or cheap rate for local service, more for long
- >> distance) but the accounting would be pretty hard so it's unlikely
- >> that such a technique will be used.
- >
- >Like telephone?
- >I don't want to have to pay more to telnet farther. Thats plain stupid.
-
- Stupid? It reflects the costs, and someone will be paying, somewhere.
-
- You bits take up space on more metres of wire if they go further. And
- those metres have a maintenance cost.
-
- >The whole point of the net is a cyberspace where distance is meaningless.
-
- I don't think Internet was *set up* as a `cyperspace', even though
- that's a very nice way to use it. So I don't think it can be the
- ``whole point''. B^>
-
- Damon
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