Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!ames!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: bzs@cs.bu.edu (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Why DA Costs Should Be Spread Among All Subscribers Message-ID: Date: 9 Sep 89 02:39:02 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 21 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 360, message 7 of 7 Call me a naive (and cynical) fool, but I always thought the reason TPC had free DA was to encourage you to use the phone system (usages which they *did* charge for.) I suppose given that the telephone companies have gone completely broke over this lost leader and have to send their top execs out on the streets to beg lunch money we'd better change everything. Not only that, but we'd achieve ECONOMIC JUSTICE! Something I am sure motivates every red-blooded Fortune 10 company in America. Does anyone in this discussion honestly believe they are talking about anything more important than marketing schemes? Are the folks making feeble noises about "justice" or "morality" in regards to DA charging actually serious? Hello...hello...anybody home? -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade 1330 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202 Internet: bzs@skuld.std.com UUCP: encore!xylogics!skuld!bzs or uunet!skuld!bzs