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From: philip@beeblebrox.dle.dg.com (Philip Gladstone)
Subject: Re: ADMD - Country combinations
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In article <JH.90Sep14212204@etana.tut.fi> jh@tut.fi (Juha Heinanen) writes:
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>I don't like this classification.  First of all, noone at least in my
>country needs any authorization from anybody to set up a non-profit or
>commercial ADMD.  Thus any ADMD is as real as any other provided that
>it seriously serves some customer base.  How ADMDs make traffic
>agreements with each other is determined purely by business reasons,
>ie. does one ADMD think it benefitial for its own business.  There is
>no politics involved.

I think that now is the time to recall the following definitions:

An X.400 Novice is someone who does not know what an ADMD is.

An X.400 Expert is someone who thinks he knows what an ADMD is.

An X.400 Guru is someone who knows he does not know what an ADMD is.

[Apologies to original author]

:-)

Philip Gladstone                        philip@dle.dg.com
Development Lab Europe                  C=gb/AD=gold 400/PR=dgc/O=dle
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