[9542] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet in a box
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Manning)
Sun Jan 9 19:03:54 1994
From: bmanning@is.rice.edu (William Manning)
To: stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 18:03:16 -0600 (CST)
Cc: jrg@galloway.sj.ca.us, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9401092309.AA05987@spare-parts.crd.Ge.Com> from "Dick St.Peters" at Jan 9, 94 06:09:22 pm
Actually, the BBS thrives. Local provisioning is a great thing.
One of the problems with the growth of the net is the scaleability
of support issues. If these can be pushed into the neighborhood,
where I can run down the the sysops house if need be, is a -MUCH-
better deal than calling a big impersonal nation wide service.
It also scales to larger numbers of connected sites/people.
After all, TJWatson was convinced that there would be fewer than
20 computers in the whole world, with lots of connects to them
as terminals. Does the same hold true for providers?
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