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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: First place.
To: mark@quickweb.com (Mark Mayo)
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> And why should I have to pay for a guy to drive up to my company in a large,
> fossil fuel burning van just to send confdential data? Do you think it would
> be hard to hi-jack that guy in the van? Of course not... I want to be able
> to have private data transfer, to anyone I wish to communicte with..

Because a van full of DAT tapes at 55MPH has a hell of a lot higher
bandwidth (at the cost of transmission latency) than multiple
gigabit networks?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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