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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Personal netnodes?
Message-ID: <381@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 21:30:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 11 21:30:57 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Jun-85 10:26:43 EDT
Organization: Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ 07764
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My boss and I were discussing an interesting topic and I thought I'd share
it with the net:

With the decreasing price of UNIX-based micros and the availability of
packages such as Lauren Weinstein's UUCP for MS-DOS, it is becoming easily
possible to have a "personal" computer acting as a net node. 

What I was wondering was whether anyone had given thought to the
implications this has for the net? I have heard several possible scenarios
for the future of the net, but none have ever mentioned this possibility.

What happens when the Ken Arndts and Frank Adrians of the net cease to
be random users and become sites?

From what I have seen of the USENET documentation, this has never been
mentioned. Does this mean that someone with the right make of computer
needs nothing more than the right software and a feed to become a node?

If nothing else, how do you name such a site and what do you put as an
organization?

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Well, it beats the "New Coke" discussion.


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