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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate,net.news.group,net.usenix
Subject: Re: Again ... What is it going to COST?????
Message-ID: <479@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 10:00:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: hadron.479
Posted: Thu Jul 17 10:00:13 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Jul-86 21:01:36 EDT
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Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Keywords: The question will not go away ....
Summary: Mild criticism
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Mild criticism of John Bass' article:

First off, it seems to me that a lot of the site administrators
of backbone sites had been talking about changes like those you
propose in the second part of his article.  Have you talked to
any of them?  (I don't remember seeing dmsd on any backbone list.)

Second, all those "simple deductions" about cost in the first
part of the article seem to me not so simple.  They make a lot
of assumptions that seem totally unjustified.  Besides the tech-
nical, one of the most basic assumptions is that all the people
involved in this are pure capitalists (value received for less
than or equal value given).  I think most of us have a strong
streak of communism (willingness to share, unlike political
Marxist "Communist"s) or even just socialism (willingness to
share others' property, too [;-)]).
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
			jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)