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- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.nodmgt-l
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!torn!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!watserv1!rwwatt
- From: Roger Watt <rwwatt@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Subject: Re: _possible_ death of BITNET
- Message-ID: <C17zF7.Fy@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: rwwatt@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Roger Watt)
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Waterloo
- References: <NODMGT-L%93012111032287@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:57:06 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- >>Okay, what are the advantages of the BITNET alternative, aside from
- >>unsolicited file transfer?
- >Getting my NOVELL mail in about 10 minutes rather than 3 hours?
- >[...] LISTSERV
-
- Eric is right. LISTSERV is about the last remaining technical advantage
- for which there is no counterpart in the TCP/IP world. The problem is
- not that it is a taboo subject, but that LISTSERV is not a "feature",
- it is a "mechanism", and therefore is invisible to people who don't
- know how things work under the covers.
-
- In the long run, however, I suspect that LISTSERV will come to be the
- last well-polished apple in an orchard in which nobody is planting apple
- trees anymore.
-