[255] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Other Researchers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Mar 2 00:35:49 1991
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 23:21:13 CST
From: SEAN@dranet.dra.com (Sean Donelan)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
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>>Actually, as long as BITNET has LISTSERV and the Internet does not,
>>BITNET has the relative advantage for people who want to have small,
>>easily controllable, yet distributed discussion groups.
>
>We enlightened ladies and gentlemen of the ivory tower call it
>netnews.
I don't think netnews fits the bill
Distributed? - yes
Small? Easily controllable? - no way
But why does this matter?
Gee, to think I used to use Mailnet. And more scary, it met my needs
at the time. Now I use half-a-dozen different networks most workdays
split among private, academic, and commercial. Each of them do some
things well, but no single network reaches all the services I use.
A bit is a bit, it really comes down to the marketeers convincing us
that their bits are better than the other guys bits. Its a strange
way of promoting ways of networking by claiming applications that
could care less about the underlying transport.
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO 63132-1806
Domain: sean@dranet.dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100
