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Hoo boy. I had the most amazing whiff of paranoia from the morning news. Clinton wants to buy the internet back for $500 million so he can watch us better? Nawwww, 'course not... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Robert Hettinga wrote: > Hoo boy. > > I had the most amazing whiff of paranoia from the morning news. > > Clinton wants to buy the internet back for $500 million so he can watch us > better? > With just one small ISP going on the public block for about 50 Million next Wed., he better get out a much bigger checkbook ... :) -r.w.
At 10:25 pm -0400 10/11/96, Rabid Wombat wrote: > With just one small ISP going on the public block for about 50 Million > next Wed., he better get out a much bigger checkbook ... :) Ah. I feel much better. How soon I forget my own preaching. In a geodesic network, a single node (or entity) can't switch all the traffic. If it does, it chokes. It becomes damage, to paraphrase Gilmore, and the internet routes around it. So, Mr. Clinton, come on in, the water's fine. Just don't expect to own the pool just because of your, er, heavy displacement... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/