[9945] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet

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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Sat Jan 29 08:23:07 1994

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 15:37:42 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Dave Hughes's message of Tue, 25 Jan 1994 12:18:12 -0700 (MST) <m0pOtHC-0008QfC@oldcolo.com>


>> Have you guys seen the TV ads for networkMCI? Little girl standing on
>> 
>> OK, so it's pretty content-free, but it's trying to do some important
>> paradigm engineering on the public.  And it's neat.  :-) Anybody here

>	But whaddya mean, 'no content?' That assumes that 'content'
>- valuable information, efficient communications, effective
>management - is what the Net will be all about to America at large.

No, I just meant that the paradigm engineering was *all* they were
doing; the ads give no details.  I was basically trying to forestall
the worst of the flames, saying, "Yes, I *know*, but that's not the
point."  :-)

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