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- From: limes@ouroborous.eng.sun.com (Greg Limes)
- Newsgroups: news.misc,comp.misc,news.admin.misc,alt.folklore.computers,misc.misc
- Subject: Re: How is the Net financed and what does it cost?
- Date: 9 Nov 92 10:39:07
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
- Lines: 13
- Message-ID: <LIMES.92Nov9103907@ouroborous.eng.sun.com>
- References: <1d6kd9INN2ar@armory.centerline.com> <gmmsTB9w165w@mertwig.UUCP>
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- In-reply-to: xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP's message of 6 Nov 92 02:14:14 GMT
-
- In article <gmmsTB9w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) writes:
- | Like telephone?
- | I don't want to have to pay more to telnet farther. Thats plain stupid.
- | The whole point of the net is a cyberspace where distance is meaningless.
-
- Fine. Figure out what it would have cost if all of your connections were
- to timbucktu and send the difference to your favorite charity. ;-)
-
- We don't really have "distanceless cyberspace" yet. The fact that you
- have the illusion that it might exist, tho, should give us all an
- indication of how far we have come since "uucp" was written.
-
- -- Greg Limes [limes@eng.sun.com]
-