George wrote:
>Contrary to popular belief the USPS is not part of the
>government.
The CNN article that I quoted yesterday said that President Clinton
proposed universal e-mail, said the Postal Service sent a proposal to
launch the .us domain intiative to the Dept. of Commerce, and pointed to a
Department of Commerce Web site soliciting comments on the proposal.
The Postal Service may not be part of the government, but it walks like a
duck, it sounds like a duck....
I think the whole idea is kinda silly anyway. Creating an email address for
every household isn't going to get those householders to somehow magically
have Internet access. Sure, they could go to the library. But how many
will? Currently, if I need to check a web site on a PC, I have to call in
the morning to make an appointment to use the Ashland library's Internet
station for 30 minutes. On a typical day, there will only be two or three
slots open to use it. Imagine if every computerless household in Ashland
were trying to get time on that one computer? Over in nearby Medford,
library users are forbidden to use the Internet station for e-mail. To cut
down on demaind it is designated for research only. The notion of every
household having an e-mail address is about as useless as every college
student having an e-mail address. My son still called me collect--he didn't
want to be bothered with walking all the way over to the computer science
lab. I've been trying for 4 years to get my dad to go to the library to
check out my web design work and it still hasn't happened. Think he's gonna
go to the library to check for bills and junk mail? No way!
Suz
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