At 06:38 PM 4/11/2001 -0400, Jeff Kell wrote:

>Juno.com's new user agreement allows for them to run distributed
>applications on your machine anytime you're connected "at their
>discretion".  Commercialized distributed computing is almost, if not
>more distasteful to me than spam.
>

I don't have a problem with this. There is no such thing as a free lunch,
and since advertising has not generated sufficient revenue for "free"
portals like Juno, asking users who don't want pay cash for internet access
to pay instead with computing cycles is not, I think, unreasonable. As long
as Juno users know what they are getting into, what is the harm?

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.

I'd never sign up for this kind of service, though.

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