Re: [wg-c] Too many "Straw Men", overblown analogies, illogical conclusions, axes being sharpened.

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 03:37 PM 8/30/99 , Robert F. Connelly wrote:
>At 15:24 30-08-1999 -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
>>Hmmm.  US$3 is roughly the price of dinner for an average (middle class) 
>>family of 4 in Malaysia.
>Come on, Dave, don't *you* jump into the overblown analogy distribution 
>business, too.
>I said the least expensive (but potentially most valuable) service for the 
>user of the Internet.
>I suspect your family in Malaysia could eat all month for the cost of 
>their phone, access time and ISP charges.

Actually, ISP dial-up access is astonishingly reasonable, there, but that 
isn't the point.  They also use cybercafe arrangements far more heavily 
than we do in the states, thereby greatly reducing the entry barrier.

Remember that a domain name is a key to Internet "presence".

And I was not trying to draw an analogy but, rather, to highlight different 
perspectives on cost.

DNS administration should not be subsidized, but neither should it serve as 
a source of excessive profits just because many people won't suffer from 
that excess.

We need to attend to the likelihood that others WILL suffer from it.

d/


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