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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Internet is too big....CI$ is much smaller.
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:18:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.101853.22386@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1gilu6INNriv@agate.berkeley.edu> <jdecarlo.488.724440187@mitre.org>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <jdecarlo.488.724440187@mitre.org> jdecarlo@mitre.org (John DeCarlo) writes:
- > In article <1gilu6INNriv@agate.berkeley.edu>
- > stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
- >
- > >I just got a message telling me that to report bugs etc I must now have
- > >a valid Compuserve account. What a pain.
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- CI$ has - maybe - 1 million users. The Internet has (last I heard) about 40
- million (including CI$), over 1 million sites in 38 countries.....
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- IBM in the US probably can't handle to volume - and cost - of the Internet
- problems...besides, they want these things to be done locally by the national
- versions of the various IBMs......
-
- Musings.....
- --
- Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand | On Sept. 19th, 88% of NZ voters opted
- Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz | for proportional representation. It
- +64 4 478 4714 | looks like we may get a more
- **** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! **** | democratic system "real soon now".
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