At 06:57 PM 6/20/99 -0700, you wrote:
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>> > Well, I (no doubt among others) proposed a buck a registration...
>> > ... that piddling little buck.
>>
>> That dollar cumulates to nearly $6 million a year.
>>
>> And who is to say that the dollar-a-domain name approach won't be applied
>> to be the dollar-per-IP address approach.
>>
>> That would amount to several billions of dollars per year.
>
>I just read one of Bill Lovell's posts on this subject and I wanted to add
>that I don't think that the $1 is a bad idea. And his reasons why it
>helps keep the "big guys" from obtaining too much control are good
>reasons.
>
>I simply wanted to point out that from small acorns great oaks grow - that
>a small (to us in the US) $1 fee can accumulate to something significant
>so we should not dismiss it simply because it is small on a per-person
>basis.
>
> --karl--
Point well taken. Some day if we leave a few other countries alone
they'll all be rich, but in the meantime we can do what the Big 7
did yesterday: forgive some many billions of dollars of foreign debt.
Residents of underdeveloped countries could well seek a waiver
(and more importantly, on that $70!), so long as the money saved
wasn't going into the pockets of the local graft and corruption crowd,
of which there is likewise never a shortage.
Bill Lovell
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