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Subject: RE: Internet policy (fwd)
From: "W.C. Epperson" <epperson @ vak12ed . edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:28:52 EDT
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <199609171440 . HAA08750 @ tu108 . tus . ssi1 . com>; from "Scott Cokely" at Sep 17, 96 7:40 am
Reply-to: epperson @ vak12ed . edu

Scott sed:
> Again, you assume that Internet access is "pay by the bit".  Not necessarily
> true for many (most?) businesses.  So calculating the "cost" of using the
> Internet is impossible.
Well, if a staff member costs, say, $75 per hour fully loaded for salary,
benefits, office space, and equipment and spends 40 hours a month using the
Internet, I think the cost of that person using the Internet is at least
$3000 per month.  Now, how to calculate the value of any benefit derived
from that expenditure is a bit dicier....
--
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Senior SE                        Self-confidence, my friends call it."
Information Security Officer             --Edgar Allan Poe--
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Virginia Dept. of Education	        
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