David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If someone is living such a hand-to-mouth existence it's highly unlikely > they'll even have access to the internet.
Not true. There are internett cafes. Public libraries. Schools. As to email, you can get free email accounts (which will probably go away if your scheme gets implemented). There was a news report a couple of weeks/months ago, where they were showing a service they had in some Asian country. Basically, someone would print out the email, drive to the remote village, get any outgoing emails, and go back to the city, type it up, and send it out. So, the village people would have internett "access", but that doesn't mean they could afford it if we started charging pennies for the access. And again, a penny for someone from the Western World (and some parts of Asia and Africa) might not be so much, but it might be alot from somewhere else ($10000 might not be much for Larry Ellison, but it's alot to me. It's all perspective). -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
