At 12:37 PM 4/5/96 -0800, sameer@c2.org wrote:
Where I differ with Mr. Bell is that he seems to think the ISPs of the world are going to rise and unite to quash the oppressive hand of big government at their own expense in order to satisify some sense of personal ethics or customer goodwill.
I urge Mr. Bell to start a business of his own with that model, and see how much fun he has. (Or, worded differently, how long it takes for him to go bankrupt. Perhaps we can setup betting pools. That could be fun.)
By now, you've probably seen my comment to Unicorn, that ISP's could easily pool their resources, in a form of insurance, to guarantee that any test case will be fully litigated to ensure that a bad precedent isn't set. What if it cost a million dollars? That's only about 5 cents per American Internet user. You were saying about "going bankrupt"? Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com