Perry Metzger writes:

Michael Dillon writes:

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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998 dirk@power.net wrote:

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So, are we going to get refunds?

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.

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I think it would be much nicer if the money were to be given to some

group

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that would spend it on its intended purpose. Let IAB dole it out as research grants or some such...

Not likely the courts will see it that way. They'll probably require that the money be returned, or given back to the users in the form of free service from NSI or some such.

A similar case happened here in Michigan, where Ameritech overcharged customers and was ordered by the court to pay it back. They ended up settling on making a several million dollar contribution to connecting classrooms to the Internet, in the form of a few large grants to groups of school districts, instead of refunding hundreds of thousands of people a few bucks. So it could happen... -----Scott.