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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: EFF and its growing pains...
- In-Reply-To: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.213354.11737@nntp.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id)
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <9301221535.AA04066@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:33:54 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- In article <9301221535.AA04066@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>, gtoal@pizzabox (Graham Toal) writes:
- >The 'networking for the masses' will only take off *on the back of* internet
- >for the masses via v32bis/v.fast modems. Those users will upgrade first
- >and then the ISDN market will be there. So you have to get the *services* in
- >place first, not the hardware.
- >
- >Concentrate on the human element, EFF.
-
- I'd like to see more discussion and information about experience on
- these lines.
-
- I've been doing some work (mainly phone calls, sharing information for
- now) along these lines - to get public information (put out by the
- government, volunteer organizations, libraries etc.) to the net via
- gopher etc. on one hand, and asking some questions about how ie.
- public libraries could be used as free internet access points.
-
- //Jyrki
-