From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:57:53 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: [NYT] Bell-South charging access fees for phone-over-Internet
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At 1:46 PM -0400 on 9/14/98, bill.stewart@pobox.com wrote:


> The company has written
> to a half-dozen Internet service providers in its region saying
> that in November, BellSouth will start levying access fees for
> voice conversations the Internet companies transmit.

Bingo. A hole big enough to drive cryptography through...

Crank up your PGPFones, folks.

Or, maybe we just need ipsec?

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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