At 9:55 PM 1/22/95, Timothy C. May wrote:

Someone on the Cyberia mailing list has announced that his URL on legal matters (http://www.commlaw.com/pepper) can only be accessed by sites which charge a "flat rate." I'm not at all clear what he means by a flat rate here....is is flat rate per month, or per access, or what? [...] So, give it a browse and add it if you find it interesting. When he sees a bunch of accesses (assuming his system has logs he can look at) from sites over which he cannot possibly hope to set policy for, he may realize the futility of this.

(He can stop accesses, or charge admission, with various means--maybe not yet fully developed, or with commercial Web servers such as Netscape is developing--but he cannot release the URL and then enforce his ideas of who can access it. God forbid we have people trying to "copyright" their URLs and then collect royalites anytime the URL shows up in someone's list of interesting places.)

What a crazy thought. I will make sure to access his URL early and often. BTW, what is your homepage URL? Or was that just a spoof? -- Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.