[5053] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: The Internet and the Anti-net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Arnett)
Tue Aug 2 03:21:50 1994
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 09:17:21 +0200
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From: nicka@mccmedia.com (Nick Arnett)
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At 1:17 AM 8/2/94 -0500, Tony Sanders wrote:
>Nick Arnett writes:
>> holds. Two distinct, interconnected publicly accessible digital
>> internetworks are likely to emerge, which is surely better than just one.
>The Internet is already thousands of distinct networks, all interconnected
>(public and private). There are even many commercial networks in that bunch.
Read what you quoted. I wrote says two "internetworks," not two networks.
And the essay doesn't talk about commercial vs. non-commercial, it talks
about advertising-based vs. non-advertising based.
>So, while the history of the printing press is very interesting you failed
>to differentiate your scheme from what we already have.
What scheme?
>
>> cable and broadcast industries. The "Anti-net" will rely on advertising
>But if they are interconnected then what is to prevent the advertisements
>from going to the non-commercial Internet? The commercial customers that
>do the spamming, post to the non-commercial resources on purpose because
>they can get away with it; that is the problem. If they would stick to
>their own playgrounds then I think everyone would be happy now.
That last sentence is exactly my point... except that everyone will never
be happy. ;-)
Nick
Multimedia Computing Corp.
Campbell, California
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