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From: @DCN6.ARPA:mills@dcn6.arpa
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Subject: Re: Essay for the Digital Committee
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Date: Sat, 7-Dec-85 22:03:08 EST
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From: mills@dcn6.arpa
Bob,

Your enthusiasm is wonderful, your impatience understandable and even
your irritation tolerable. Those of us who have built or used networks
professionally understand that it is easy to sling wires but extraordinarily
hard to build large networks that are always there when you wnat them,
adapt handily to changing traffic and know where everybody is, even if
they are trotting around the expressways.

I have a fabulous suggestion. While some of us are fumbling around trying
to build the network of your dreams, why not use the telephone system? Or
better yet, linked (audio) repeaters? I'm entirely serious. You and others
who want simply to hook widely separated digipeaters together and ragchew
with your friends could form an appropriate committee and work out how
to do that using telephones and linked repeaters. Meanwhile some of the
rest of us can have a wonderful time figuring out how to do that with
packet switching. Not necessarily better, but certainly different.

Dave
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