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Re: Quote from Kashpureff / Re: question about per. hack

  • From: Ted Timmons
  • Date: Tue Jul 22 17:57:23 1997 
At 05:07 PM 7/22/97 -0400, Christopher Masto wrote:
>Now _that's_ not right at all.  I think the excuse of charging a fee for
>something to discourage its use is ridiculous.  Where exactly are these
>AOLers going to get primary and secondary name service?  Web servers?
>Mail forwarders?

With the latest free email, web pages, etc (juno, hotmail, geocities), it
wouldn't take too long for someone to come up with free DNS, MXing, etc..

How would _you_ discourage registration? By not explaining it very well?
That hasn't kept the idiots away from unix, Perl, etc...
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