On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:39:04 -0700, "Cthulhu's Little Helper"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>On 29 June 1999, Gene Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>Rhonda,
>>
>>You may be missing the point.
>>
>>The Internet is not a merket, any more than the Interstate Highway system
>>is a market. It IS, however, a market-enabling technology, just as the
>>Interstate Highway system is. Without it, our economy would not be nearly
>>as robust as it is.
>>
>>In a similar manner, the Internet is poised to become that market-enabling
>>infrastructure. The parallels are not all perfect, but the analogy is
>>still accurate. Without either, there is the potential for market collapse
>>or diminishment.
>
>
>The net is no more a market-enabling technology than the phone is. I mean
>that literally. As in, the phone enables me to make more effective use
>of vendors, but that's it. I don't want people selling me things over
>the phone in an unsolicited manner. I don't want people 'narrowcasting'
>products to my phone based on my demographics. I'll decide how, and when,
>and with whom, I use my phone. And I'll decide who my carrier is. And
>I'll decide, to a certain extent, how my phone number is to be used.
Those decisions are what make you a part of the market.
>We've already seen 50+ years of commercial interests trying to co-opt our
>personal information. I won't sit idly by and let them subsume this
>particular technology to suit their ends.
--
William X. Walsh
General Manager, DSo Internet Services
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The Law is not your mommy or daddy to go crying
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