Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!pyrnj!mirror!xanth!kent From: kent@xanth.UUCP Newsgroups: news.stargate Subject: A modest proposal Message-ID: <748@xanth.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 17:25:44 EST Article-I.D.: xanth.748 Posted: Wed Mar 25 17:25:44 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Mar-87 05:43:21 EST References: <1369@ncc.UUCP> Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) Distribution: na Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va. Lines: 38 Keywords: copyright holder's ultimate power over distribution Summary: Take that, stargate! I don't know if this will help or hurt, but a few thousand articles per week including the last part of my .signature should certainly discourage the stargate folks from acting as anything but a common carrier. If they need licensing for such, let them go through the application process. We need a replacement for a common carrier, because the current one has gotten moby greedy. We don't need someone manifesting greed in a new way, by ripping off our rights in our intellectual properties. Stargate doesn't want to be responsible for the contents of my or anyone else's flames, either, I bet, so common carrier is the only safe way to go. This doesn't need to be a war; but it sure is turning out that way, somehow. I guess the folks at the stargate project should take a look at the heat they are generating, and rethink what they are doing, and why what they are doing is causing so much discontent among what they hope to be their customer base. We can all win. If we all save 60% on our phone bills, and split the other 40% between the Stargate folks and the cost of the startup hardware, we and they would be better off. Personally, I'd pay to put up an antenna for my private use, if someone would provide a public service like Stargate proposes. I much prefer email to phone-tag, even for my private communications; my phone spends most of the day supporting a modem, so I'm cut off from incoming calls anyway. -- Kent Paul Dolan, "The Contradictor", 25 years as a programmer, CS MS Student at ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, to find out how I was supposed to be doing this stuff all these years. 3D dynamic motion graphics a specialty. Work wanted. Unemployment is soooo nice though...I never have to disclaim anything! UUCP : kent@xanth.UUCP or ...seismo!decuac!edison!xanth!kent CSNET : kent@odu.csnet ARPA : kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu Voice : (804) 587-7760 USnail: P.O. Box 1559, Norfolk, Va 23501-1559 Copyright 1987 Kent Paul Dolan. All Rights Reserved. Incorporation of this material in a collective retransmission constitutes permission from the intermediary to all recipients to freely retransmit the entire collection. Use on any other basis is prohibited by the author.