roundtable: Re: bill to insure flat rate Internet email pricing (fwd)

roundtable: Re: bill to insure flat rate Internet email pricing (fwd)

Re: bill to insure flat rate Internet email pricing (fwd)

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Thu, 24 Feb 1994 11:23:40 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 11:23:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
Subject: Re: bill to insure flat rate Internet email pricing (fwd)
To: roundtable@cni.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.85.9402230129.C27661-0100000@essential>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9402241137.A17032-0100000@access2.digex.net>

  What principle does this proposal serve, after evading the battle to 
overturn the hostile takeover of the NREN?  This proposal is an unseemly 
way to go.  It involves the whole public interest community in an mere 
quibbling contest over a tenuous issue, when all should be involved in 
protecting the policy established with the NREN program.  That battle 
would decisively resolve all the problems now faced by the public 
interest community.

Vigdor

On Wed, 23 Feb 1994, James Love wrote:
> 
> Distributed to TAP-INFO, a free Internet Distribution List (subscription 
> requests to listserver@essential.org).  This may be freely disseminated.
> 
> TAXPAYER ASSETS PROJECT - INFORMATION POLICY NOTE
> 
>      PROPOSAL TO PRESERVE FLAT RATE PRICING FOR ELECTRONIC
>      MAIL SENT TO AND FROM NON-COMMERCIAL INTERNET
>      DISCUSSION GROUPS AND LISTS
>     
>      Feb. 23, 1994
> 
> The following is proposed language which would require telephone
> companies to provide a tariffed Internet access service.  An
> important feature of this is the requirement that the Internet
> service include a FLAT RATE service for electronic mail sent to
> and from non-commercial Internet discussion groups and lists.  We
> have reason to believe that this or something similar may be
> offered as an amendment when the House Subcommittee on
> Telecommunications and Finance meets to mark-up HR 3636.
> 
> The rationale for this proposal is to insure that the Internet
> will continue to provide opportunities for citizen to participate
> in democratic discourse on a wide range of topics (since flat rate email 
> pricing is considered extremely important for Internet discussion 
> groups). 
> 
> Please copy (cc:) comments to James Love of the Taxpayer Assets
> Project.  v. 202/387-8030; f. 202/234-5176; internet:
> love@essential.org.

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