On 17 May 96 at 18:54, Timothy C. May wrote: [..]

Alan's irony is well-placed. The most egregious repetition of the "too cheap to meter" nonsense is George Gilder's "dark fiber" vision...a vision of "infinite bandwidth" to all users.

Guess what? If Gilder's "dark fiber" is ever built, there are a lot of folks who will "fill it" rather quickly. Canter and Siegel were just the beginning. "Too cheap to meter" goes away pretty quickly.

Remember not-so-many-years-ago when 640k PCs were awsome and a 40MB HD was unfillable? A better phrase is "if you build it, they will fill it (eventually)". Rob. --- No-frills sig. Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.