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I personally believe that the new policies that are being debated for 
possible passage, and eventual enforcement will cause the demise of the 
world wide web as a place for everyday people to post home pages, or any 
other personal web activity besides using it for email and e-retail because 
business will be the only ones able to afford to pay for the use of every 
file used to create their sites. The web will no longer be a place for 
every person to have a presence. It will turn off many people, and cause a 
significant loss of people who use the web. Thereby causing a loss of 
possible e-retail business for those businesses on the web! Having a group 
of lawyers, one of whom represents Microsoft, and one of the others 
Hewlett-Packard on the committee for this decision with no one on the 
committee being anyone who has IT experience to be appalling. What are you 
people at the W3C thinking? I personally hope that this is not implemented, 
we web surfers and users were sold a bill of goods that told us that the 
world wide web was a place where not only business could thrive, and find 
new ways of reaching consumers, but also a place where all users could have 
a presence and share there unique personalities. This smacks of the 
almighty dollar once again trampling on what was once something everyone 
regardless of economic background, who could afford the approximately $20 
it takes to access the web could have a presence on to now being once again 
a place where only those of unlimited wealth can attain. SHAME ON YOU!

Received on Tuesday, 2 October 2001 23:40:05 UTC