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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: The TRUTH about .UUCP
Message-ID: <122@desint.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 16:31:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 16:31:24 1985
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References: <10490@ucbvax.ARPA> <12347@Glacier.FUN>
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In article <12347@Glacier.FUN> reid@Glacier.FUN (Brian Reid) writes:

>In summary:
>	* Basic principle of distributed system engineering: 
>	  Domains will not work without central authority
>	* Basic principle of modern life:
>	  Central authority will only come as part of a larger service
>	  that is valuable enough that people will be willing to pay for it.
>	* Lemma:
>	  All communal ventures in the history of the modern world have
>	  ultimately failed, as judged by the world outside those ventures.
>	  uucp mail is fundamentally a communal venture (except inside AT&T
>	  where Gary Murakami holds it together).

Gee, Brian, three out of three ain't bad at all.  Three unsupported statements,
that is, none of which are self-evident.  All three are rather sweeping
claims based on the author's opinions.  As to (1), distributed systems
without central authority exist and work;  why do you think domains are
special?  As to (2) and (3), they are clearly based on the author's personal
political opinions and are not worth dignifying with a response in this
newsgroup.

I have directed followups to net.politics, which is where this sort of
unrigorous (is that a word?) noise belongs.
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	...!ihnp4!trwrb!desint!geoff


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