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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 09:56:55 CST To: com-priv@psi.com From: walkerl@med.ge.com (Larry Walker) Sean McLinden <sean@dsl.pitt.edu> wrote: >The difficulty with even something like PPP/SLIP is the unfortunate fact >that the next *big* segment of the market is comprised of people who use >network services but don't think of it in that way, like the voice mail >and FAX users. And the reason that they view these differently is that >the most they need to know is what is the phone number of the connection >in the wall and that of the person that I want to reach (and I only need >that until I get an automatic dialer). I agree. But I tend to feel that we'll have more luck bringing them into the fold via PPP and Eudora and a GUI-based nntp newsreader than we will with a copy of Procomm and vi and rn. >The point is, that the issue is more than just an RJ connector in the >wall. It is network access so simple to use that you just plug your >system in and say "I want to send this to George" and it does it. These >people (and there is a huge market out there), don't even want to know >how it is done. They don't, necessarily, want Prodigy or Genie or >Internet because they can't be sure that this service will let them get >to where they want to go, but they *know* the phone will let them do it. > >So what's the answer for them? I'm seeing very promising results from large rollouts of preconfig'd PPP-on-a-diskette. I think that should be the goal. AOL's new-member disk is a good example of doing this, albeit with a proprietary "protocol". Larry
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