so how do you link with that ISP? Phone lines? Wpuldnt it be easy work to detect data streams over phone line and have the phone co. disconnect you for naughty use? Or just dirty the lines again so that data has a hard tome getting though clean.
I prefer your way, but if they want to tax, they will. Yes there can be some undewrground activity, but how many mainstream folks are going to go through that? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gil Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 11:19 PM Subject: Re: email charge > First "they" have to find the ISP. It can be hidden in any online computer, > which may be in a secure site with many thousands of other computers. > > Gil > > panamabob wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > >
