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Re: net.terrorism


From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:44:09 -0500

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:07:48AM -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote:

the position to be net.gods and for political reasons destroy the free
character of the internet.

I've been involved for over 20 years, and don't remember this "free 
character".  Perhaps there is a language translation problem?  That 

Yeah, last time I checked, the Internet was primarily made up of privately-
owned pieces of cable, hooked together through privately-owned pieces of
equipment, residing in privately-owned buildings, monitored and maintained
by employees of privately and shareholder-owned companies.

Information may want to be free, but fiber optic cable wants to be
a million US dollars per mile.

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