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From: alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Tom von Alten)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Big Brother charging for modem use?
Message-ID: <8060004@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 20:04:43 GMT
References: <1991Mar2.023716.13851@csn.org>
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
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In comp.org.eff.talk, todd@toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman) writes:

> I am not "freeloading," as you put it, when I use my private phone line
> 15 hours/day continuously (as I often do).  I am paying for 24-hour
> service, and I am not concerned about the requirements to the phone
> company of delivering the level of service I am paying for.

> You are free to insult yourself by calling yourself a "freeloader,"
> but how dare you lay your lack of self-respect on me?

Ayup.  And when enough of their customers get to using their phones
15 hours/day, somebody will have to pay for it.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.