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From: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown)
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Subject: Re: ANS Acceptable Use Policy
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Date: 4 Apr 91 15:47:40 GMT
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cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes:
> "Whose paying for all this [MERIT, ANS, etc.]" is you, bud.  It's taxpayer
> money that keeps the INTERNET going.

Thank you, thank you.

I now ask...why blame ANS (and the companies hired to run the net) for policies
they were in all probability *TOLD* to implement?

There's an agency of Government behind all this...hmmm...wonder what would
happen if *they* were pressured to do the right thing, given they hold
the purse-strings?

Hmmm.


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