At 16:01 12/06/96 +0200, you wrote:

The Belgian Minister for Telecommunications came up with the idea of introducing a "bitrate tax" on information transmission. Perhaps IPng provides a "tax paid" field in the IP header? :-)

Nice to see you still alive and kicking. I have a better solution. Use compression repeatedly on a message until it is reduced to zero bits and then send it at zero cost. Paul.

Piet

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