Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!world!eff!mnemonic From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: EFF and Prodigy Message-ID: <1990Dec19.195005.12415@eff.org> Date: 19 Dec 90 19:50:05 GMT References: <1990Dec17.195846.6364@looking.on.ca> <1990Dec19.064520.1529@looking.on.ca> Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation Lines: 36 In article <1990Dec19.064520.1529@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > >It is somewhat ironic. A year ago, people would have called 25 cents/message >electronic mail a price breakthrough, cheaper than MCI, Dialcom, etc. > >Now GEnie has unlimited E-mail and a few others do to, but it's still the >exception. Right now it's a fact of business that you can't allow >unlimited e-mail and mailing lists of thousands of people and make money. >I expect that to change with time, but what's the surprise today? It is also ironic that the Prodigy protestors weren't really interested in unlimited e-mail to begin with. What they wanted was the ability to engage in conference discussions without going through censors and without having public discussions abruptly removed. Prodigy management's advice was to take it to e-mail. Which they did. Only *then* did Prodigy get worried about the volume of e-mail and institute a usage charge. They clearly created their own problem. The Prodigy protest is only tangentially about unlimited e-mail. --Mike -- Mike Godwin, (617) 864-0665 |"If the doors of perception were cleansed mnemonic@eff.org | every thing would appear to man as it is, Electronic Frontier | infinite." Foundation | --Blake