[12543] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Demise of the Internet is good news
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Williams)
Fri May 20 20:34:01 1994
From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
To: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 09:22:21 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <m0q4Eug-000IEKC@crynwr> from "Russell Nelson" at May 19, 94 04:41:00 pm
Film at eleven...
>
> Mary Johnston Turner, in her May 16, 1994 Network World Opinion piece
> says that the "Demise of the Internet is good news for network users".
> She goes on to say "The Internet as we currently know it, a
> government-subsidized backbone interconnecting numerous ad hoc and
> nonprofit regional networks, is unlikely to survive the next five
> years".
THAT Internet has already been replaced by the new Internet....
I think that Sprint, Uunet, PSI, Compuserve, AOL, regionals, etc.
would take offense at being called 'ad hoc and nonprofit'.
> She goes on in that vein. In case anyone wants to run out and retain
> her for consulting purposes, she is a principal with Northeast
Ha!
> Consulting Resources, Inc., a Boston-based consulting company. She
> can be reached at +1-617-654-0619 or via the Internet at
> turner@ncri.com.
I'm trying to resist the urge to mail a few hehehehes to her....
> She can thank me for the free publicity later. Much later.
>
> -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> ftp.msen.com:pub/vendor/crynwr/crynwr.wav
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