Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!srcsip!ctrsol!ginosko!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.uu.net From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Franchise Opportunity Message-ID: <1366@intercon.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 89 15:57:27 GMT References: <434@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM> <1989Aug9.140945.5371@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <937@utoday.UUCP> <339@m2xenix.UUCP> <943@utoday.UUCP> <3992@looking.on.ca> <44233@bbn.COM> <1363@intercon.UUCP> Sender: news@intercon.UUCP Reply-To: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 28 In article <1363@intercon.UUCP>, I said: > And you're pretty out of date. A lot of Usenet news is propagated across > NSFnet, but the NSF is not DARPA. ARPAnet is quickly ceasing to exist... > > The folks at the NSF have said (I don't remember the exact quote) "go ahead > and use the bandwidth for News. We'll make more..." > > This isn't to say you don't have a point, but you might want to bone up > a little on NSFnet, MILNET, and the plans for the National Research Internet > before pontificating... I thought I'd clarify my statement, since I've gotten a couple of objections to it in email... I was responding to the (fairly condescending) claim that amounted to "if the DARPA pulls the plug, you'll be sorry." The Internet != ARPAnet. As I said in the last paragraph, I think that Steven had a point, but that he expressed it poorly. Some of the ground rules have changed. Some of them haven't, but pretending that everything is just like it was a decade ago is (ahem) generally not a great way to sound knowledgeable... Sorry for any confusion. -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation -- amanda@intercon.uu.net | ...!uunet!intercon!amanda