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Date:      Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:18:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Act Now !
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.960307101410.30001A-100000@professor.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199603070650.WAA10366@rah.star-gate.com>

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On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote:

> 
> I guess politics is part of the package when the Internet is so much
> on the spotlight :(
> 
> 	Amancio
> 

[huge 'Voice On Net' article deleted]

The point being, if use of the internet stopped being an experiemental 
tool and became one tenth as popular as, say, the web browsers, the 
internet would stop being useful as a communications medium.  The 
bandwidth ain't there, and if it was, the swithcing point bandwidth isn't 
there either.  The internet isn't a viable option for massive replacement 
of our telephone network.  It's fine for experimenters, and I've been one 
of them, but if it stopped being experimental, and everybody joined in, 
this would be a disaster.

==========================================================================
Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2
 
Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky,
  Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame,
Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie,
  One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game
In the Domains of Internet where the data lie.
  One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them,
  One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.





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