[2101] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Trickle Down? How About Bubble Up?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Haverty)
Sun Jan 26 23:25:02 1992
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 92 20:23:48 PST
From: Jack Haverty <jhaverty@us.oracle.com>
To: brian@lloyd.com
Cc: daveh@csn.org, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Brian Lloyd's message of Sun, 26 Jan 92 13:20:47 PST <9201262120.AA13470@ray.lloyd.com>
"...It is possible to do dial-up IP just as easy as it is to do uucp or FIDO
these days...."
This is true, except that you can't exchange mail or files between TWO dial-up
users without some effort to make sure they're both online. Within Oracle, we
use uucp fairly extensively to provide basic mail services to (very) remote
countries. Dial-up IP is the second step, used when at least most-of-workday
usage is the case. Kind of like going from cowpaths to country lanes I guess.
Jack
