[13269] in Cypherpunks
Re: MBone cypherpunks session...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri May 6 17:11:07 1994
To: Evil Pete <shipley@merde.dis.org>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 May 1994 13:56:31 PDT."
<199405062056.NAA19181@merde.dis.org>
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Fri, 06 May 1994 17:05:42 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@snark.imsi.com>
Evil Pete says:
> >
> >What is the point here? The MBONE isn't like usenet. Sessions aren't
> >free. Personaly, I'd say that frivolous use of the mbone will alienate
> >people.
>
> just cause everyone does not have phone does not mean we shalt not
> use telephones.
>
> just cause everyone does not have email does not mean we shalt not use email
You completely misunderstand. The MBONE is a very scarce resource at
the moment. Setting up teleconferencing sessions that aren't, say,
multicasting a conference (like, say, a Cypherpunks meeting) but are
just being used to let people do what they do on mailing lists at
500,000 times the cost in network bandwidth isn't social.
Perry
