Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!spool2.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!vsi1!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Existence of Usenet Message-ID: <27975CC4.5218@tct.uucp> Date: 18 Jan 91 20:38:28 GMT References: <1991Jan18.040511.16670@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 27 According to diamond@jit345.enet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (Norman Diamond): >chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >> "If Usenet exists, then what is its mailing address?" -- me > >Well, what is the address of the telephone network? "The [worldwide] telephone network" does not exist. "The [U.S] telephone network" does not exist either, and it hasn't existed since divestiture. In some senses, it never did. There are many and diverse organizations that make up "the telephone network." If you look closely -- by reading your phone bill, for example -- you can discern the elements that make up what we might consider "the network." They -- AT&T, MCI, Sprint, GTE, etc. -- _do_ exist, and they _do_ have mailing addresses. >The post office? I don't know enough about the Post Office to answer. >What is the address of the software crisis? We're discussing organizations, not situations. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , "If Usenet exists, then what is its mailing address?" -- me "c/o The Daily Planet, Metropolis." -- Jeff Daiell