On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 21:50, Mark Foster wrote: .....
As much as Rob's comment looks like FUD there's an element of truth. Schools are businesses and are charged business rates. Telecom also cut them various deals to get online as economically as possible.
Mark.
I've never accepted that schools are businesses. They are schools. They make no profit. They deliver services compulsorily delivered - and received - by law. The police aren't a business either. Nor is the fire service. McDonalds is a business. Fonterra is a business. Schools are not a business. Phone service to them should not be charged by the minute...and network access for educational purposes should be part of the national educational infrastructure - like classrooms and playgrounds and libraries. ISPs should deal with them accordingly. I'd love see some of the more destructive memes of the past 15 years expunged from society.....so we can one again give these things the priority - and resources - they deserve. -- Steve Withers <swithers(a)mmp.org.nz>