[9561] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet in a box
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric H. Jensen)
Mon Jan 10 21:34:37 1994
In-Reply-To: <9401100003.AA12169@brazos.is.rice.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 18:14:36 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: "Eric H. Jensen" <ehj@psilink.com>
Seems like you are making a case for an Internet franchise.
>DATE: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 18:03:16 -0600 (CST)
>FROM: William Manning <bmanning@is.rice.edu>
>
>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?
