Oh yes they can.... just a matter of charging a license fee to ISP either as a flat customer charge or a timed access.
No, it wouldnt affect other countries useage but you have to sign on somewhere, thats where they get you. It will be intersting if satellite ISP come to pass which can be foreign based; what will governments do then? bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gil Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 5:48 PM Subject: Re: email charge > This is yet another internet myth. > How could anyone place a charge on the internet? > It was set up by universities to exchange information, then the US military saw > the potential for an unstoppable information exchange system, one that could not > be knocked out by the likes of September Eleven. (Although a section of NY did > go down, but not even the State, let alone the country.) > > Relax, your country may be able to go and beat a small, poor, starving and > totally devastated country like Afghanistan into submission, but it could not > put a charge on the internet. > > Gil > > >
