[295] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: pointless bickering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Schlitt)
Tue Mar 5 11:26:02 1991
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 91 11:10:14 -0500
From: Dan Schlitt <dan@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
To: bob@aecom.yu.edu, com-priv@psi.com, sob@tmc.edu
As they say, "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
On BITNET all they have (roughly speaking) is LISTSERV and everything
looks like a listserv list. On the Internet (again, roughly speaking) we
have netnews and everything looks like a newsgroup.
Netnews has its set of RFCs; there seems to be nothing like that for
mailinglists. So even if listserv is "only a mailinglist" there is a
deficiency.
If promoting internetworking is based on applications, then there
seems to be something missing. If internetworking depends on
interoperability in a heterogenious environment then a protocol seems
to be needed. If commercialization (that is what this list is about)
depends on demand for internetworking services then filling in this
void would seem to be a "good thing".
/dan
