From: fnerd@smds.com (FutureNerd Steve Witham)
Date: Mon, 23 May 94 10:13:13 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Charge for Internet, Please.
Message-ID: <9405231712.AA03272@smds.com>
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Re: the latest "Taxpayer Assets Project" pettition against
    charges for internet use.

Personally, internet charges, combined with dropping of NSF
involvement, can't come too quickly for me.  I want to sign
the counter-pettition: 

   To whom it may concern: 
   I'm willing to pay, just get out of the way.

I don't mind if schools subsidize their students' accounts
(tuitions pay for it already and would still do so),
or if whoever funds research would subsidize researchers'
accounts.  But then I believe in the separation of school 
and state, science and state, art and state.

If a charge of $20/month (and falling) gets rid of the whiners, 
charge on.  Fat chance, of course, but they don't bother me
as long as no one takes their advice.

- -Steve Witham
quote me
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