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- From: xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker)
- Newsgroups: news.misc,comp.misc,news.admin.misc,alt.folklore.computers,misc.misc
- Subject: Re: How is the Net financed and what does it cost?
- Message-ID: <4JV2TB6w165w@mertwig.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 21:05:38 EST
- References: <LIMES.92Nov9103907@ouroborous.eng.sun.com>
- Organization: Odd Parity Hacker's Group
- Lines: 22
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- limes@ouroborous.eng.sun.com (Greg Limes) writes:
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- > 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.
-
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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.
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