[1044] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Text of chron-nren
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David J. Farber)
Mon Jul 22 20:55:13 1991
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 91 20:54:07 GMT-0500
From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David J. Farber)
To: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
I sent francis a private note but will publically repeat it.
EVEN the NY Times -- John Markoff used the encyclopaedia metric. is a damn good
one for the lay public!!!
Dave
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>From: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
To: com-priv@psi.com
>describing "a gigabit is a transmission rate of a billion bits
>per second" may be useful to you, but I would venture a guess
>that most of Joe's readers would not gain much by such a statement.
Maybe he could attempt to teach them a teensy bit, so that they would
benefit from it. The way he phrased it sounded as if an encyclopaedia
were a basic unit of information.
