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From: egranthm@jackson.UUCP (Ewan Grantham)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: USENET is dead! Long live USENET! (was Re: The death of USENET)
Summary: Now what...
Message-ID: <217@jackson.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 88 02:58:20 GMT
References: <7475@swan.ulowell.edu> <2645@rpp386.UUCP> <4434@killer.UUCP>
Organization: Mississippi Dept. of Corrections
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In article <4434@killer.UUCP>, wisner@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes:
> >USENET has been mortally wounded with the passing of ihnp4.  From where
> >I am sitting the prognosis is not good.
> 
> I doubt it. ihnp4 has been flaky and unreliable with mail for some time
> now. This is no secret. Its loss will be felt, but hardly fatal. If the

My question now is, what will happen to mail and news which were supposed
to be routed through ihnp4? Are we about to see a mass of material bouncing
back through the net?

As for its flakiness or non-flakiness, I don't really think that's the
point. Like all human organizations, as they get larger, they are going
to change, in both good and bad ways. The increasing availability of
Unix machines means that volume on the net is going to keep increasing,
and I can only hope that there will be enough people willing to keep
providing the disk space and incurring the phone charges, to keep the
net up. Of course, as erasable CDs and 19.2k modems become more popular,
this may not be such a problem :-)

Ewan Grantham


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