Re: the latest "Taxpayer Assets Project" pettition against charges for internet use. Personally, internet charges, combined with dropping of NSF involvement, can't come too quickly for me. I want to sign the counter-pettition: To whom it may concern: I'm willing to pay, just get out of the way. I don't mind if schools subsidize their students' accounts (tuitions pay for it already and would still do so), or if whoever funds research would subsidize researchers' accounts. But then I believe in the separation of school and state, science and state, art and state. If a charge of $20/month (and falling) gets rid of the whiners, charge on. Fat chance, of course, but they don't bother me as long as no one takes their advice. - -Steve Witham quote me - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To auditors without the code, calls seem indistinguishable from noise. --George Gilder -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a aKxB8nktcBAeQHabQP/d7yhWgpGZBIoIqII8cY9nG55HYHgvt3niQCVAgUBLMs3K ui6XaCZmKH68fOWYYySKAzPkXyfYKnOlzsIjp2tPEot1Q5A3/n54PBKrUDN9tHVz 3Ch466q9EKUuDulTU6OLsilzmRvQJn0EJhzd4pht6hSnC1R3seYNhUYhoJViCcCG sRjLQs4iVVM= =9wqs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----