Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telecom Art Message-ID: <68865@bu.edu.bu.edu> Date: 14 Nov 90 22:32:09 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 825, Message 8 of 11 I have often considered combining the Usenet locations with the messages and putting up a map of the Usenet world. For each message in the spool, I'd pulse all the systems it went through to get to me, translating the net into a softly glowing, pulsating, galaxy ... flaring up at high traffic periods, perhaps watching the night (hacker time, when one expects most messages get posted) sweep across the globe... Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. peter@ferranti.com