[967] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
"Pornography" on the net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.e)
Fri Jul 12 18:17:49 1991
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 91 16:41:36 CDT
From: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
To: cmaeda@cs.cmu.edu
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com, edtjda@magic322.chron.com
In-Reply-To: Christopher Maeda's message of Fri, 12 Jul 91 10:57:36 EDT <9107121459.AA06797@uu.psi.com>
Reply-To: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
>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.
BZZ!! Wrong answer! :-)
Even if the Internet carried nothing but news, that would not imply
Internet = Usenet; the newsnet includes many sites that aren't on the
Internet, and stating the equality gives people the impression that
the Internet is the only way to get news.
Moreover, since the Internet is used for so *much* more than news,
asserting the equality in the popular press would give the impression
that the Net is much less than it is, and turn popular opinion against
the NREN.
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