Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 19:55:46 -0400
Reply-To: Puzerewski <Puzerewski@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
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From: Puzerewski <Puzerewski@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Subject: Re: Fw: HILL VOTES ON IP REGULATION TUESDAY: SOS
I can see all this email stuff and it proved Nothing to me. I have seen
this sort of malarkey many times. Someone forwarding emails from someone
else does not prove anything to me, Sorry, but i am not a believer in this.
Also, those of us out there that really think Congressmen out there give a
rat's @#@ about what their constituents truly think needs to wake up. There
is more money floating around in Washington than all of us combined will
ever see. And, if indeed, big business is behind the push of this supposed
bill, forget even bothering with your 2 cents. It will be blown off.
Adam Puzerewski
81 westy
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Fw: HILL VOTES ON IP REGULATION TUESDAY: SOS
> At 17:51 5/14/2000, J. Kelly wrote:
> >Huh?
>
> Now that we've established that HR 1291 is a real bill, that it did indeed
> pass out of committee on Friday, and that it explicitly declares the
> possibility of access charges to providers of voice services on the
Internet...
>
> ...the interesting (to some) question is whether it is a good or a bad
> thing that this bill should become law. The opposing interests, at least
> on the face of things, are those who use the Internet for telephony, who
> wish the cost to be distributed amongst everyone as it is now; and those
> who do not so use the Internet, who might rather wish that the voice users
> pay for their own bandwidth.
>
> However the situation could be (and no doubt is) argued in a number of
> directions, such as: If I have to pay for voice bandwidth, why shouldn't
> you have to pay for downloading pictures, and most especially for
> video? Why shouldn't there be a surcharge for people with enormous
> websites that take a lot of bandwidth to load? Why shouldn't there be a
> surcharge for people with very popular websites that generate enormous
> amounts of traffic. Et cetera.
>
> :)
> david
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
> http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"
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