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


From: Ted Timmons <tedder () abcompsvc com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 14:27:11 -0700

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...
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