17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 12:40 pm -0400 on 5/22/97, John Deters wrote:
Adam's "Tragedy of the Unmetered Commons" certainly provides a solution. Metering and charging e$ for mail-routing services would allow it to occur while stopping the freeloaders.
The tragedy of the commons, of course, is that nobody owns it. :-). Eric Hughes and his penny-roll experiments to the contrary... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/