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On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 03:53:04PM -0700, Paul A Vixie wrote: > > I hate to ask, but are *you* buying into the host transmit charges? > > As opposed to client request fee's? > > i'm not wedded to sender-pays or to receiver-pays. what i want is to end > the subsidies that have brought the internet economy this far. granted > that we couldn't have come to where we are in a free market, we can't get > on from here without a free market. > > therefore the people transmitting and/or receiving packets are going to > have to pay, in micropayments of some kind or in variable rates through a > settlement-like feedback mechanism, for the bandwidth they cause others > to have to provision for. > They already do Paul. That its not explicitly metered at the byte level doesn't change the fact that it has been paid for. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost
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