[1020] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: "Pornography" on the net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John S. Quarterman)
Tue Jul 16 12:17:43 1991
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 23:54:52 cdt
From: jsq@tic.com (John S. Quarterman)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
Cc: edtjda@magic322.chron.com, jsq@tic.com
I claim that the Internet and Usenet are pretty much the same thing.
A recent paper on tcp traffic measurements (anon ftp
/pub/tcpmeasurements.ps from ftp.ee.lbl.gov) showed that NNTP traffic
was a significant portion of total traffic. A lot of news is
propagated over the Internet.
By the same argument, the Internet and the UUCP mail network are pretty
much the same thing, since much mail originating on UUCP passes over the
Internet. And the Internet and BITNET are pretty much the same thing,
for the same reason. And what about the Internet and CompuServe, and....
If the Internet is pretty much the same thing as the sum of all the
networks out there, why does it need a specific name?
USENET goes a lot of places the Internet doesn't; many of them places
where you can't use FTP or TELNET or SMTP, nor even NNTP. The Internet
and USENET are not the same thing. Part of the Internet carries part
of USENET.
If you're trying to say that USENET news has become a very widespread
service on the Internet, that's probably true.
