[10346] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
re: Internet "PayPhones"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Per Gregers Bilse)
Sat Feb 19 03:30:01 1994
From: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse@eu.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 09:12:44 +0200
In-Reply-To: <9401250159.AA10776@iscmed.med.ge.com>
Reply-To: noc@eu.net
To: com-priv@psi.com
On Jan 24, 19:59, Larry Walker wrote:
> >the 'technology content' to a telnet session made the whole thing
> >much more feasible and available to many more users.
>
> So the least-common-denominator rules again. You've just relegated your
> customers back to Unix cmd-line mail, have you not? I need (want) a PPP
To some extent, yes, but I'm not sure 'relegated back' is a fair
description of what we've done; we have actually addressed a
need which many travellers have. What we'd need for something
else than a cmd-line is genuine mobile IP, which isn't here yet.
However, we deliberately made the POPs 8bit clean, meaning that
adventurous users can run whatever protocol they want on top of
the telnet session.
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