Xref: utzoo news.admin:11016 news.misc:5656 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:13629 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!bu.edu!rpi!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!samsung!olivea!tymix!cirrusl!sunstorm!dhesi From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Internet/NSFNet proposal to be run by IBM -- call to action! Message-ID: <2650@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 3 Nov 90 02:10:35 GMT References: <1990Oct28.220432.521@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <132136@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1990Oct29.205244.2051@supernet.haus.com> Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc. Lines: 19 In <1990Oct29.205244.2051@supernet.haus.com> cluther@supernet.haus.com (Clay Luther) writes: >Internet will not be cheap until it drops to say, $100/month, or less. I fail to see why it should be any more than about $1.50 per month, plus communications costs. You don't need $100/month for storing a password entry. The only significant cost should be for communications. While we're on the subject, the whole idea of requiring some sort of leased line for Internet access is all wrong. In this age of Trailblazers, low-volume access to a network shouldn't need to cost more than $30/hour after hours plus $1.50 per month for maintaining the account. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi A pointer is not an address. It is a way of finding an address. -- me