1996-02-21 - Public Access Obsolete. Capitalism offers free email

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From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-02-21 03:47:09 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 11:47:09 +0800

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From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 11:47:09 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Public Access Obsolete.  Capitalism offers free email
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960220201325.0070e5c8@panix.com>
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The NYT's Cybertimes reports 
(http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/0219email.html)

that two companies are preparing to offer free email to customers who agree
to be barraged by ads.  Juno and Freemark will soon offer free email to all
(Americans).

http://www.freemark.com/freemark.html

http://www.juno.com/

And since you can do (almost) anything with email that you can do with the
rest of the net (just more slowly and less conviniently) I guess we don't
have to worry about government-provided public access any more.

DCF

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• 1996-02-21 (Wed, 21 Feb 1996 11:47:09 +0800) - Public Access Obsolete. Capitalism offers free email - Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
  • 1996-02-21 (Wed, 21 Feb 1996 16:11:50 +0800) - Re: Public Access Obsolete. Capitalism offers free email - nobody@alpha.c2.org (Anonymous)
    • 1996-02-21 (Wed, 21 Feb 1996 16:23:22 +0800) - Re: Public Access Obsolete. Capitalism offers free email - lmccarth@cs.umass.edu
      • 1996-02-21 (Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:58:30 +0800) - Re: Public Access Obsolete. Capitalism offers free email - Mike Fletcher <fletch@ain.bls.com>
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