To be perfectly honest, I could care less about any letters. It might be a good idea to follow in the footsteps of Informationwave and just take action.
<CLARKE> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 8:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: $12,000 per person registration fee (was RE: Eat this RIAA) On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Nigel Clarke wrote: > However, this type of action might not be necessary at all. > > Some of the users on this list think RIAA's recent actions are nothing more > than empty threats. > Why doesn't NANOG make a few of its own? > > A "polite" letter from a NANOG representative should do the trick. The RIAA's annual budget is roughly $18 million. That pays for lawyers and other stuff which goes into writing "polite" letters. To raise that much money Merit would need to charge about $12,000 per person per NANOG meeting. People complain the current $300 registration fee is too much. NANOG is not a lobbying organization. There are other several organizations (and mailing lists) you may want to consider instead, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/ You can also write your elected representatives for the price of a postage stamp. Some congress critters even accept e-mail now.
