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Re: BBN/GTEI

  • From: M. David Leonard
  • Date: Tue Aug 25 11:24:26 1998 
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Brian Pape wrote:

> Ok, here comes the Bell System all over again.  This would have the effect
> of trickling down to the point that you would be charged more for
> downloading a web page from Germany or ftping an encryption program from
> Australia than you would for getting a web browser from Illinois.
> 
> Start looking for peak/off-peak rates, different long distance billing,
> etc.  Sounds like a good way to regress.

	Anybody here remember the fairy tale about the goose which laid a 
golden egg?  Who got egg on their face in that version?

					David Leonard