[12231] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet

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Re: "Arizona Lawyers Form Company..."

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Tue May 10 17:41:55 1994

Date: Tue, 10 May 94 09:15 EDT
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
To: paul@vix.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <VIXIE.94May10031002@office.home.vix.com> (paul@vix.com)

   Date: Tue, 10 May 94 03:10:05 -0700
   From: paul@vix.com (Paul A Vixie)

   Russell Nelson wrote:

   >Every end site will put a C&S filter on their servers.  Simple change to
   >inetd (and probably smtpd aka sendmail).  Somewhat less efficient than
   >central filtering, but more democratic.

   All 20,000,000 of them?

There are not 20,000,000 news servers on the Internet.  Probably more
like 200,000 (and that's only an average of 100 readers per -- both
universities in town have one news server for 600-700 hosts).


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