[121493] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Hamilton)
Thu Jan 21 04:28:39 2010
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:27:45 +0000
From: William Hamilton <bill@edisys.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <m2ocknudfh.wl%randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 21/01/2010 07:25, Randy Bush wrote:
>> 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
>
I don't know about anyone else, but the vast majority of my non-tech
friends (and even most of my tech ones) don't use email on their phone.
Anyone (i.e. everyone I know) who has a mobile phone has the ability to
receive an SMS and some things in life are far too much hassle to nickel
and dime over the cost per word of sending a communication - life is too
short.
B
