Re: Quote from Kashpureff / Re: question about per. hack

[Christopher Masto <chris () netmonger net>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 1997 at 02:27:11PM -0700, Ted Timmons wrote:
> At 05:07 PM 7/22/97 -0400, Christopher Masto wrote:
> > Now _that's_ not right at all.  I think the excuse of charging a fee for
> > something to discourage its use is ridiculous.  Where exactly are these
> > AOLers going to get primary and secondary name service?  Web servers?
> > Mail forwarders?
>
> With the latest free email, web pages, etc (juno, hotmail, geocities), it
> wouldn't take too long for someone to come up with free DNS, MXing, etc..
>
> How would _you_ discourage registration? By not explaining it very well?
> That hasn't kept the idiots away from unix, Perl, etc...

I _wouldn't_ discourage registration.  That's the point.
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