In article <Pine.BSI.3.93.980330130528.5497H-100000@sidhe.memra.com>, Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> wrote:
That would mean that the NSF (your tax dollars) would have to pay for doling out many, many small checks or else the fund itself would pay for the issuing of checks thereby reducing a meagre refund to a measly refund.
Last year I wrote NSI a check for $50. I should be able to renew it for $20 -- the correct price of $35 minus the $15 they overcharged me. -- Shields, CrossLink.
On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 12:23:02AM +0000, Michael Shields wrote:
In article <Pine.BSI.3.93.980330130528.5497H-100000@sidhe.memra.com>, Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> wrote:
That would mean that the NSF (your tax dollars) would have to pay for doling out many, many small checks or else the fund itself would pay for the issuing of checks thereby reducing a meagre refund to a measly refund.
Last year I wrote NSI a check for $50. I should be able to renew it for $20 -- the correct price of $35 minus the $15 they overcharged me.
Damn, no one reads. _Listen up, people_. NSI was charging $35, _plus the $15 the government told them to, by contract_. Someone bitched, the government, _who were GETTING that $15_, changed the instructions. NSI stopped charging the extra $15. NSI don't owe anyone shit... although, of course, that _is_ what we get from them. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
At 10:27 PM 3/30/98 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
NSI don't owe anyone shit...
instead of focusing on the question of NSI, versus not NSI, how about noticing that everyone has been overcharged (actually rather more than $15, but we'll take what we can get) and notice that the money is still around, and then just credit it back to the users. If that takes a transfer from the USG to NSI, big deal. ________________________________________________________________________ Dave Crocker Brandenburg Consulting +1 408 246 8253 dcrocker@brandenburg.com 675 Spruce Drive (f) +1 408 249 6205 www.brandenburg.com Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA
On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 07:57:44PM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
At 10:27 PM 3/30/98 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
NSI don't owe anyone shit...
instead of focusing on the question of NSI, versus not NSI, how about noticing that everyone has been overcharged (actually rather more than $15, but we'll take what we can get) and notice that the money is still around, and then just credit it back to the users.
If that takes a transfer from the USG to NSI, big deal.
Um... the problem, Dave, is still that the word "overcharged" is incorrect. NSI collected that money _as an agent_ of the government. They don't have it, much less do they owe it to other people. It's _that_ misconception which I was trying to correct. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
Actually I think Dave has positioned this extremely well. It would be even better if it could be credited back unilaterally across all chargable services to include not just domains, but IP space as well where it could be applicable (ie - legacy IP space currently pointing to the commercial .com/.net zones). M. On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Dave Crocker wrote:
At 10:27 PM 3/30/98 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
NSI don't owe anyone shit...
instead of focusing on the question of NSI, versus not NSI, how about noticing that everyone has been overcharged (actually rather more than $15, but we'll take what we can get) and notice that the money is still around, and then just credit it back to the users.
If that takes a transfer from the USG to NSI, big deal. ________________________________________________________________________ Dave Crocker Brandenburg Consulting +1 408 246 8253 dcrocker@brandenburg.com 675 Spruce Drive (f) +1 408 249 6205 www.brandenburg.com Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA
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