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From: rainer@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rainer Malzbender)
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Subject: Re: novice trys to set up PI
Message-ID: <1991May15.224535.17271@colorado.edu>
Date: 15 May 91 22:45:35 GMT
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In article <1991May15.200159.19891@cs.dal.ca> silvert%biome@cs.dal.ca writes:
>
>Your final comment about using email is valid, but apparently that
>violates the noncommercial constraints.  Pity.

This is a more general net question (from a networking greenhorn), but
wouldn't it be possible to come up with some kind of scheme where some
packets on the net are identified as "commercial" and the owner then
pays Darpa (or whoever runs this thing) a fee per packet ? In this way
companies could offer Internet product support and pay for it.

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Rainer Malzbender                          Real programmers build hardware.
Dept. of Physics (303)492-6829 
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