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Re: The %^&# did it!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Tue May 16 16:22:44 2000

Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:19:27 -0400
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: John Fraizer <nanog@EnterZone.Net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 03:37:45PM -0400, John Fraizer wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36339,00.html
> 
> Time for a change in Washington.  Register to throw them out...er...vote.

hmmm. there seems to be some confusion as to what internet telephony is.

later in the article, they say:
      Ken Rutkowski, a CNET radio host who has aired his
      opposition to the bill, said he uses online telephone
      services like those of AOL's ICQ daily. 

i don't use ICQ, but i sorta understood it to be half between biff and irc.

how is ICQ considered an "online telephone service"?

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