[257] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Other Researchers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John S. Quarterman)
Sat Mar 2 12:47:36 1991
From: John S. Quarterman <jsq@tic.com>
To: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot)
Cc: jsq@tic.com, com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 01 Mar 91 16:46:06 -0800.
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 91 10:21:41 -0600
>>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.
No, Eliot, I said small and easily controllable. If netnews were
the solution for that, why would com-priv or nren-discuss exist?
Netnews is indeed something they don't have on BITNET, and NNTP
is something that could be used to great advantage in advertising
the benefits of the Internet. But LISTSERV is not netnews.
The ``we enlightened ladies and gentlemen of the ivory tower''
attitude was what I was using LISTSERV to illustrate, by the way.
A superior attitude isn't enough to sell networks (particularly
when who you're trying to sell them to *is* the ivory tower).
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John S. Quarterman
Texas Internet Consulting jsq@tic.com tel: +1-512-320-9031
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