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From: crawford@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Brian Crawford)
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Subject: Re: More on BBSs and Phone Rates
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Date: 12 Jan 91 16:51:36 GMT
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In article <15941@accuvax.nwu.edu>, johnp@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (John
Parsons) writes:

> Throw out the small-minded city council, that's what!  (I'll resist
> flaming about the morality of forcing licenses *at all* upon people
> who are engaged in entirely voluntary association.)

When (assuming if) the U.S. government policy and telephone utilities
catch up with their own direct-dial, universally accessed and used
E-Mail network, it can be certain that highly restrictive telephone
tarriffs as well as legislation will be used to stamp out the various
BBS networks in lieu of a costly system provided by Telcos.

Enjoy them while you can. 


Brian Crawford               INTERNET: crawford@stjhmc.fidonet.org
PO Box 804                   FidoNet:  1:114/15.12 
Tempe, Arizona  85280        Amateur:  KL7JDQ 
USA  


[Moderator's Note: Well, I dunno ... AT&T, Sprint and MCI all have
commercial email services at this time, and the government has the
Internet, yet you don't see them hassling the BBS guys all that much
except for the current controversy over what rates to be charged. All
of the big three email providers -- or four if you count Compuserve
were more than eager to interconnect with the 'free' Internet once the
technical bugs were worked out.  They don't seem that eager to squash
the others in my opinion.   PAT]