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Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Jan 21 02:26:47 2010

Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:25:54 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <202705b1001200601r5bbedc2fl6578926cde45ae0c@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>, Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> It's funny how we circle around with technology, folks are dumping
> their phone land lines and adopting wireless/mobile that required a
> substantial technology leap and investment and now we are using the
> mobile phone to "text" an incompressible dialect worse than the early
> teletype/telex days but with a humongous infrastructure to support it.

and paying and exhorbitant price per word for negligible bandwidth.

run your own servers or use a friend's and use email

randy


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