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From: dougf@wega.Caltech.Edu (Doug Freyburger)
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Subject: Re: Portal Lowers Rates for Telenet Access
Message-ID: <7405@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 25 Jul 88 17:15:36 GMT
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In article <1383@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> badri@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu (Badri Lokanathan) writes:
>In article <25167@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes:
>> ... 
>> Strictly speaking they should be advertising the ability to send
>> *mail* to the Internet, rather than a *connection* to the Internet,
>
>Even if portal was on internet, I do not see anything
>wrong with their charging for access. However, I believe they should
>not charge separately for internet access.
>

I thought Portal was advertising Telenet access, a private service,
instead of Telnet access, brought to us by the government.  It is
quite reasonable to charge for access to a private service.
dougf@wega.caltech.edu

Douglas J Freyburger
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